Monet can buy “stress free lifestyle” which happiness is a byproduct
Money buys you the luxury of beeing in the position where money can’t contribute to your happiness any longer.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
How does one obtain food, shelter, healthcare, a basic sense of security by having a stable and safe living space?
Oh thats right, you obtain all that with money, obtaining those things without money is either functionally impossible for the vast majority of people, or literally a crime.
Yeah, adding an infinite amount of money to one person doesn’t meaningfully impact their ability to get those first two layers figured out.
Distributing money such that everyone has those two base layers… is quite literally the foundation for a happy, stable, productive society.
Liquidate the billionaires… assets, of course.
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Liquidate the billionaires… assets, of course.
If it were that simple, then we should just liquidate the billionaires with rifles. They deserve no respect.
Unfortunately, they’re just the symptom of systematic issues of capitalist political economy, so without solving that, new billionaires will emerge.
No one earns a billion dollars. They steal it from those that create wealth.
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I’m all but certain the whole “money can’t buy happiness” shtick is just classist propaganda to keep the peasants poor by trying to build some kind of weird pride in staying poor.
Money can buy freedom, and while freedom doesn’t guarantee happiness, it’s a pretty fucking important ingredient.
It’s usually used in explaining that a rich person can be sad, rather than to say all poor people are always happy.
In my experience, it’s used to spitshine poverty.
“Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.” - Spike Milligan
