Can Money Buy Happiness?

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Happiness is a goal everyone is trying to reach. We learn we have to get success to be happy at a young age. When we we’re even our parents might be working two jobs trying to support the family money coming in but how do they really feel about having a lot of money and having no time extra to spend time with their children or just have free time. That’s why some people say homeless people could be happy also, but nobody understands completely. They do not have to worry about paying bills or taxes like the rest of us they still have troubles but with too much money it could be overwhelming. The argument that money cannot or does buy happiness will be always be a tough question to answer because everyone has the right to their opinion and different …show more content…

Being rich leads to a stressful life but what doesn’t have problems and not being perfect is what makes us humans in this earth. There is a lot of debate on this matter that money could buy happiness, many people that agree to this lived on both sides for example a singer songwriter started from the bottom just making music but one day being notice and became wealthy. This outcome happens a lot in today’s time with the power of social media, but they could say their life got changed for the better they might be a few bumps in the road, but nothing can’t be fixed over time or putting in more money in which they have plenty of now. A TED talk video talk by Michael Norton, “how to buy happiness”, When people gain a big portion of money it makes everyone …show more content…

Almost everybody devotes their time and energy chasing money and happiness. it gets them feeling some sort of pleasure that they have made it because that’s what it got planted in our heads when we were younger. It is difficult to have a good life in many people opinions despite being successful we wonder whether we would be happier with more money. It would take a lot of research to find an answer to see who is happier in their state of being financial stable. Past research has been done but both are up, and down different stories told that some people are happy or sad, but I think it juts depends on the person and what do they make their life about. People have spiritual values they need to have to live a good life and always see the good side of things to be happy. Materialism and happiness, it shows that people could be happy with money with buying new things they haven’t had before. It will have more associate more happiness with martial purchases and the person with lower expensive things could feel less worthy and try to reach the same level in the future, but it is an endless cycle of tying to reach money that leads to happiness at the end. Im a big fan of buying new things not many people have discovered or have to feel a way of happiness. Being the first one of a new material like new