@lain George Lucas is probably the only person in history to say "I have enough money" and be right.
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Of Course Money Can Buy Happiness, Don’t Be Absurd
By Noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world
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You're dead for a real long time / You just can't prevent it / So if money can't buy happiness / I guess I'll have to rent it
“Weird” Al Yankovic, “This Is The Life”
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Of all the atrocious life advice I’ve heard from old people, possibly the worst is “money can’t buy happiness.” Perhaps they’re telling you that conspicuous consumption is a waste of money (which is true), or that greed can destroy you (also true), but any other interpretation of the phrase has to involve realizing that the near-universal hatred for Baby Boomers and their platitudes is well-justified.
Money can clearly prevent unhappiness by paying for doctor bills, car repairs, and simply keeping you and your loved ones free from being homeless. Money can protect you from violence, petty crime, pollution, noise, and other things that make you unhappy. And if preventing unhappiness isn’t synonymous with creating happiness, the two must be closely correlated.
Think of every time money could have saved you from misery or wasted time or physical pain. Every second spent worrying about the rent/mortgage, every second wasted waiting for a bus you could easily get stabbed on (and have to pay your own medical bills for, in my country), and how about that time you paid a back alley brain surgeon to remove the time bomb from your skull without activating it so you could go back into the villain’s secret lair for revenge? Money could have kept you safe from worry, from much violence, and from many diseases. Money could have made you happy if you weren’t so damn poor.
Think of how many people you know who got divorced over money problems, condemning themselves and any children they might have to suffer additional misery. Not the stigma from being poor--that’s a totally different issue--but the lack of funds themselves. A big percentage of broken homes and failed marriages (albeit flawed in other ways, if they are truly destined for divorce) could have been kept together with the proper application of money.
Think of how many talented artists and musicians and actors you know who have to give up their dreams to work menial jobs to avoid starvation. I’m aware that the Star Trek replicator machine is not real and we will always have physical needs and trouble earning/distributing food, but this is another problem that money could solve, or at least severely reduce. Pay good artists a living wage and they will probably make good art. It’s just a challenge to survive and be happy in this shitty economy, and those in power would rather spend tax money to fund the perverted arts rather than hiring Colleen to paint the next Sistine Chapel or the Roiloup brothers to investigate e-celeb criminals.
20 years ago, my cousin suddenly got hit with cancer and died soon after. She could have prolonged her life by a few painful months by going into debt for $100,000 for a futile cancer treatment, but on her deathbed, she made a smart decision to use what little money she had to give to her husband instead (they had no children, otherwise she would have left those pennies for her offspring). Of course we’d all love to be able to pay our way out of any disease, fatal or no (and yes, I know that America’s health care system is garbage, so the argument is moot), but my cousin’s choice to give her money away rather than suffer in the hospital a few more months showed me the wisdom of using money to make people happy, however little it may be possible in such indigent circumstances.
And here I am complaining about “first-world problems” as social media calls them. My family might be poor by American standards, but we always had a leaky roof over our heads and cheap food to eat; much of the world doesn’t even have that much. This doesn’t necessarily mean that handouts from charities in rich countries will guarantee a happy and successful life for a village in Botswana, but the thought does help me to be grateful for what crumbs of bread I have. I will pester everyone in the world to use their money for moral good, even if it’s unproductive.
All my talk of using money carefully to increase happiness is not to say that anything you can do to earn money is morally correct, or that rich people are automatically worth your respect. Most rich people are worthless assholes who make the world worse with their wealth, and I bitch about megabanks/asset fund managers/credit card processors IRL and on the Fediverse all the time. I hate that evil shit. They are clearly using their trillions of dollars for malicious ends. This rant isn’t about them, it’s about the real people I care about, those who have suffered endlessly from poverty and debt and their own bad fiduciary decisions.
And I know that Bible verse about the love of money, so don’t try to totally pwn me by saying I’m greedy (plus, I could quote Ecclesiastes 10:19 out of context to you for the lulz). Greed is bad, and I have personally seen the lust for money turn people to evil, something I have avoided my entire life (yes, I have had opportunities to lie and promote poz for a living, and I have always rejected them). I am endlessly inspired by principled men like Bill Watterson who refuse immense wealth so they can maintain their principles and dignity.
So it isn’t love of money, it’s the acceptance of it. I don’t love money any more than I love a hammer or a saw or any other item, but hammers and saws don’t get slandered nearly as often as this one useful tool.
But feel free to compare me to Bike Cuck; total happiness in the world would increase if we were all wiser and not evil with our money. Using our finances to avoid misery isn’t always possible, but it’s still a worthy goal to work towards.
By Noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world
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You're dead for a real long time / You just can't prevent it / So if money can't buy happiness / I guess I'll have to rent it
“Weird” Al Yankovic, “This Is The Life”
----------
Of all the atrocious life advice I’ve heard from old people, possibly the worst is “money can’t buy happiness.” Perhaps they’re telling you that conspicuous consumption is a waste of money (which is true), or that greed can destroy you (also true), but any other interpretation of the phrase has to involve realizing that the near-universal hatred for Baby Boomers and their platitudes is well-justified.
Money can clearly prevent unhappiness by paying for doctor bills, car repairs, and simply keeping you and your loved ones free from being homeless. Money can protect you from violence, petty crime, pollution, noise, and other things that make you unhappy. And if preventing unhappiness isn’t synonymous with creating happiness, the two must be closely correlated.
Think of every time money could have saved you from misery or wasted time or physical pain. Every second spent worrying about the rent/mortgage, every second wasted waiting for a bus you could easily get stabbed on (and have to pay your own medical bills for, in my country), and how about that time you paid a back alley brain surgeon to remove the time bomb from your skull without activating it so you could go back into the villain’s secret lair for revenge? Money could have kept you safe from worry, from much violence, and from many diseases. Money could have made you happy if you weren’t so damn poor.
Think of how many people you know who got divorced over money problems, condemning themselves and any children they might have to suffer additional misery. Not the stigma from being poor--that’s a totally different issue--but the lack of funds themselves. A big percentage of broken homes and failed marriages (albeit flawed in other ways, if they are truly destined for divorce) could have been kept together with the proper application of money.
Think of how many talented artists and musicians and actors you know who have to give up their dreams to work menial jobs to avoid starvation. I’m aware that the Star Trek replicator machine is not real and we will always have physical needs and trouble earning/distributing food, but this is another problem that money could solve, or at least severely reduce. Pay good artists a living wage and they will probably make good art. It’s just a challenge to survive and be happy in this shitty economy, and those in power would rather spend tax money to fund the perverted arts rather than hiring Colleen to paint the next Sistine Chapel or the Roiloup brothers to investigate e-celeb criminals.
20 years ago, my cousin suddenly got hit with cancer and died soon after. She could have prolonged her life by a few painful months by going into debt for $100,000 for a futile cancer treatment, but on her deathbed, she made a smart decision to use what little money she had to give to her husband instead (they had no children, otherwise she would have left those pennies for her offspring). Of course we’d all love to be able to pay our way out of any disease, fatal or no (and yes, I know that America’s health care system is garbage, so the argument is moot), but my cousin’s choice to give her money away rather than suffer in the hospital a few more months showed me the wisdom of using money to make people happy, however little it may be possible in such indigent circumstances.
And here I am complaining about “first-world problems” as social media calls them. My family might be poor by American standards, but we always had a leaky roof over our heads and cheap food to eat; much of the world doesn’t even have that much. This doesn’t necessarily mean that handouts from charities in rich countries will guarantee a happy and successful life for a village in Botswana, but the thought does help me to be grateful for what crumbs of bread I have. I will pester everyone in the world to use their money for moral good, even if it’s unproductive.
All my talk of using money carefully to increase happiness is not to say that anything you can do to earn money is morally correct, or that rich people are automatically worth your respect. Most rich people are worthless assholes who make the world worse with their wealth, and I bitch about megabanks/asset fund managers/credit card processors IRL and on the Fediverse all the time. I hate that evil shit. They are clearly using their trillions of dollars for malicious ends. This rant isn’t about them, it’s about the real people I care about, those who have suffered endlessly from poverty and debt and their own bad fiduciary decisions.
And I know that Bible verse about the love of money, so don’t try to totally pwn me by saying I’m greedy (plus, I could quote Ecclesiastes 10:19 out of context to you for the lulz). Greed is bad, and I have personally seen the lust for money turn people to evil, something I have avoided my entire life (yes, I have had opportunities to lie and promote poz for a living, and I have always rejected them). I am endlessly inspired by principled men like Bill Watterson who refuse immense wealth so they can maintain their principles and dignity.
So it isn’t love of money, it’s the acceptance of it. I don’t love money any more than I love a hammer or a saw or any other item, but hammers and saws don’t get slandered nearly as often as this one useful tool.
But feel free to compare me to Bike Cuck; total happiness in the world would increase if we were all wiser and not evil with our money. Using our finances to avoid misery isn’t always possible, but it’s still a worthy goal to work towards.
I'm at the gym and there's a sign that says "Pool's closed" and if I owned a gym I would absolutely post that stupid 4chan meme on the window and then get exasperated when people don't realize that the pool is actually closed
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