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Sorry for the triple post but i dont spam much so whatever...
First of all , the rich people mostly never shard your opinons chruser, its always the people that are not rich, and when they become rich they just lost the opinons tottaly.
Wtf is happiness? It is feeling good about yourself, fine lets leave at that, feeling good about yourself and what you have done. Now lets branch out into 2 paths and look at them .
1. Guy is born into poor family, grows up, gets a wife, gets a solid job, has kids, loves his family. Family makes around 60k a year, they are always trying to balance there budget, they are sad when they cant afford to do things they love and go on vacation, husband works constantly, but loves his life because of his family. The kids grow up, Man goes into late retirement with little money, and dies early, yeah hes happy because of his family.
2. Guy is born into family pulling in 6 figure income, rakes in job as game designer for some huge company (eq, squaresoft,etc). Has no family, climbs ladder, becomes extremly famous. You type his name in google and you have 1000's of results =p. He works 6 houres a day, and just plays games, gives advice, (designs). He goes home to huge house in his porche, marrys supermodel, who loves his money, but also gets to know and love him (Thats not impossible). Hes off half the year, takes up golf, and never worrys about anything, pays others to worry. Grows old, goes into retirement with millions, helps by donating to charitys, knows he made a diffrence in the world and his name will be spoken for years to come.
Ok... Now lets compare those, 1 is about average, number 2 is like extremly lucky. Who is more happy? Lets do it like this, Count up every MINUTE each man is NOT worrying about stuff, and is enjoying himself and number 2 wins by a longshot. Did they share the SAME happiness in the end (Felt the same amount of happiness at one time or another) sure, probably, but 2 is happy alot longer then 1. 2 will be spoken about after hes dead (You can relate this to ancient rome and there view on life, they thought the more fame and money you had the more you made of your life, the more important you were, etc etc). Number 1 can say "Yeah well money does not buy happiness cause look im happy and i dont even have that much" but number 2 can say "Yeah Im as happy as number 1, but im happy all day, and i can do whatever i want".... Does money = happiness? No but money does make happiness alot easier and longer.
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