Happiness is the value or condition of feeling happy, joy or pleasure. Many arguments, researches and studies have been made about whether money can buy a person’s happiness or not. Researchers state that only people who are living in poverty, unhappy or overly wealthy agree to the statement that money cannot buy happiness. In fact, it is how one works with their money that leads to happiness. Money can eliminate the struggle of money problems, which most likely outcomes to unhappiness, additionally, money can buy happiness as long as one gives some of the money away.

Proponents argue causes of happiness that are attained because of money or wealth is most importantly because of where the money is being spent. Being wealthy or having a fortune is not always about spending ones money on themselves. In fact, some of the wealthiest people on earth are most likely to become miserable because of how they tend to spend their money. In “Can Money Buy Happiness?” Flynn (2013) writes that Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton have proved evidence that spending money on others and by helping them is how money buys happiness. Providing others with the help one can will make individuals feel healthier plus wealthier, even though it means making oneself a bit poorer to gain these positive benefits. For example, two of the wealthiest men on earth, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, planned to ask America’s billionaires to give the majority of their money to charity. Warren Buffet wanted to