Money can definitely buy happiness when you’re poor! People who tell you otherwise are kidding.
You can even buy it when you’re rich, but it’s a bit more difficult!
Basically, if you think money can’t buy happiness, you probably don’t have enough of it or you’re
spending it poorly! Let us explain!
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Here’s what most people get wrong.
Money shouldn’t be emotional, but the lack of it can cause emotional pain!
It’s hard to be happy when your child is starving.
It’s hard to be happy when you’re in debt and have just been fired.
The truth is, if you think money can make you happy, then you are probably right!
If you think money will not make you happy, you are probably right as well!
Money solves money problems!
And many of life's problems happen to be money problems.
If happiness is the outcome of peace, as long as you have problems on your hands,
your mind or soul you can not sustain happiness.
There are 2 different kinds of happiness in existence:
Momentary happiness - such as when your dog licks your face
And The
State of Happiness - such as when you’re in a loving relationship,
you’re healthy, you live in a comfortable home and reality is positively predictable.
Differentiating between the two is crucial. Most people confuse happiness with pleasure.
If pleasure you are after, wealth is absolutely the best vehicle for that.
Money can always buy pleasure, but there are diminishing returns to the transaction!
The first bite of chocolate is always the best one. The more and more chocolate you eat,
less delicious the chocolate becomes. If you keep going,
you’ll eventually be sick and your body will reject it.
The more you think about it, the more you realize there is no such thing that you can do
over and over again and get the same kind of happiness return.
Indulging in pleasure generates the momentary happiness we were speaking about earlier.
It’s like a shot of hapiness. You experience it when you buy
something you really want or when you get a text from your crush.
Your brain floods with endorphins and you feel warm and excited on the inside.
But that’s not why you’re here watching this video. You’re not
after the surface-level happiness, you want the real deal, the true, deep stuff.
Well, money can definitely get you really really close to it and even
open the door, for you to finally take that last step on your own.
Here’s why that is:
The purpose of wealth is to make life less shitty!
For as long as you live remember why you’re earning money in the first place.
It might not be a direct purchase of happiness,
but it sure as hell protects you from all these sources of unhappiness.
Money protects the people that make you happy! Picture a parent with a child suffering from a
rare disease. This parent would give anything for their child to be cured of the illness.
What if you had the money to be able to afford the surgery and now you can enjoy seeing your
child grow up to be an amazing adult. Does that constitute as happiness? We think so!
You see aluxers, it’s not the number on your banking app or how high the stack of dolla’
bills is, but it’s the effect that money can have on your reality when you use it wisely.
If there was ever a smart way to buy happiness directly,
we’re about to share with you the ultimate secret!
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it allows you to give it away!
Take a moment to think about that.
Happiness is contagious!
When other people are happy, their happiness rubs off onto us.
If this is true, and based on personal experience it is, then the happiness hack you’ve been waiting
for your entire life is as follows: Make other people happy and you will
be happy yourself! It’s that simple!
We call it The Happiness Arbitrage! If something costs you a little
but generates plenty of happiness in other people, you should always make that trade, because the
overall happiness in the world increases. Taking 10 minutes to call your grandma
will make her entire day. So you should always make that trade.
This is why people subscribe to our channel and so should you!
Subscribe and call your grandma afterwards!
You know what’s a great metaphor for life:
Money can always buy you ice cream… and unless you drop it, you will be pretty happy to enjoy it!
But wait, There’s more to it!
There 3 big things money can do for you that will add up to happiness:
Money reduces intense stress - and stress is one of the things we’re fighting with the most today.
More money brings greater control - we find trouble in fear, uncertainty and doubt. As humans,
we have evolved to be scared of the unknown, of the darkness, but money is a flashlight
that leads to a predictable road ahead, it gives the tools necessary to have a fighting chance.
And thirdly, Higher incomes lead to higher life
satisfaction. At the top of the Maslow hierarchy of needs, you have esteem and self-actualization.
In society, we judge others by how well they are able to navigate life,
based on their mastery of those needs. Since money can pretty much solve most
of the levels of the pyramid, of course we conclude that money can buy happiness.
There’s even science to back this up.
In 2010, two Nobel laureates in economics published a paper that
created a tidal wave of interest both inside and outside academia.
It showed that money can buy happiness up to $100,000 in yearly income. - the original
paper listed the benchmark between 60-70,000 dollars, but we had to adjust it for inflation.
[[ PNAS September 21, 2010 107 (38) 16489-16493; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas .1011492107
Contributed by Daniel Kahneman, August 4, 2010 (sent for review July 4, 2010 ]]
After the 100,000 dollars per year, money has little impact on your overall happiness.
Money buys you comfort! And comfort breeds happiness on
its own if you know how to leverage it.
You see aluxers, money might be able to buy you a house,
but it’s you that have to turn it into a home.
You might not yet realize it, but The most important thing money can buy is time!
Whenever someone says to us that money can not buy happiness, we respond with: but it can buy us
time with our kids! It can buy you time with your partner! It can buy you time with your parents!
The time you otherwise would have to trade in order to get
money to pay for everything you need to be alive.
You only realize the value of buying time and its correlation to happiness only after
you have successfully done the trade. Once you see the power of money in the
purchase of things that make your soul full, you can never go back.
If you think money can not buy happiness,
use your money to buy experiences for you and those you love.
Experiences turn into memories and memories are the cornerstone for happiness!
Look back on the best memories of your life
and a smile comes on your face. We can draw happiness from our past.
Wanna be long-term happy? Use the money to fill up your memories bank and you can always
draw happiness from them. This is the entire philosophy behind
living a good life, a life worth remembering.
Happiness is a social thing and money can either make or break social ties.
If you win the lottery and everybody you know comes begging for money, the result is you will be
less happy. - 1 you either give them your money and now you feel like you have less,
or 2 you say no and they resent you for it.
Money only makes you happy when you’re not selfish!
Instead of spending it on yourself, spend it on other people and see what happens!
But does that mean you need money to be happy?
That’s definitely not the case, but from a strategic perspective,
it’s like playing the happiness game on hard mode when you have the option not to.
It’s easier to solve money than to survive happily without any material needs.
Society doesn’t help either. We have structured society in such a way that despite living in the
most abundant time in human history, it’s really hard for most people to
overcome their realities. This is why we praise success and put it on a pedestal.
Fortunately for everybody watching, you have all the resources needed at your fingertips to
generate wealth for yourself due to the largest technological revolution humankind has ever seen.
We want you to be wealthy so you no longer have to worry about money.
We want you to be wealthy so that everyone around you is wealthier because of you!
The world rewards those who change it for
the better by giving them wealth and if they choose it, happiness!
What do you think Aluxers, Can money buy happiness? Share a personal story or insight
you have on the topic in the comments! That way other people in our community can learn from you!
As for those of you watching until the very end, of course, there’s a bonus waiting:
As long as you’re chasing happiness or money, you will not find either!
Listen carefully, because this golden nugget might just be the
key to the happiness you were searching for:
The follower doesn’t worry itself of the bee.. It simply blossoms and the bee comes!
It’s the same with life, wealth or happiness.
Albert Camus [Ka-moo] put it elegantly when he said:
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
You do not piece together a makeshift version of wealth or happiness,
instead, become the person worthy of happiness or worthy of wealth.
Be the person who generates wealth for others and you will be wealthy yourself!
Be the person who makes other people happy and you will be happy yourself!
The game is simple Aluxers, it’s just that most people are playing it wrong!
Next Sunday we’re doing a special video on the Game of Life and how to win it.
From an actionable perspective, we’re already working on it!
If this video inspired you and you think you have a real shot at happiness, make sure to
write the word HAPPY in the comments, that way we know which ones of you are on the right track!
Stay blessed Aluxers!