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Hepocles — 1 year ago(January 27, 2025 06:39 PM)
How do you account for all the lottery winners that have killed themselves?
My theory is that with a lot of people, when you give them all the goals they strife for via working, they finally realise how meaningless **** is.
Happiness is the journey, not the final destination
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/.ㅤ — 1 year ago(January 27, 2025 06:45 PM)
How many lottery winners have killed themselves? The problem with giving a lot of money to a poor person is they are too stupid to handle it properly due to an inability to delay gratification and so they end up blowing it all quickly on stupid stuff and then are back to being miserable. They are bunch of Christinas.
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Pandora — 1 year ago(January 27, 2025 06:47 PM)
They went crazy with excess and couldn't handle it
I would imagine that the majority of lottery winners don't kill themselves though.
Anyway, it doesn't need to be millions that 'buys happiness'. Even an amount to pay off your mortgage or something meaning the worry of affording bills every month is lifted, thus giving some happiness that was previously overshadowed by financial stress. Less worry and less stress will always make someone feel happier unless there is depression or some mental issue that they cannot get past. In which case they may win the lottery and then kill themselves anyway. -
soapbox original gangster — 1 year ago(January 27, 2025 06:36 PM)
try being 'happy' living on the street. i dismiss metaphysical/philosophical happiness and instead concentrate on the existent and the physically-present. sufficient financial security helps provide the latter's fulfillment
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MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(January 27, 2025 06:49 PM)
It's early in the film when Marion gets back to the office after her little "hotel room lunch" with her boyfriend.
It's when the old client pulls out the $40,000.00 and explains that he's buying a house for his daughter, who is going to be getting married .
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
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Steve Lake — 1 year ago(January 28, 2025 06:46 AM)
Well I'm not rich. But my net worth which is $ 1. 8 Million means I will never ever have to work again.
Or correction, a job that I'm not happy doing.
I can be very picky.
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𝙵𝚞𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒. — 1 year ago(January 27, 2025 06:46 PM)
Money buys happiness, but excess can contribute to unhappiness. There's a concept called the hedonic treadmill. Basically, everything evens out eventually. You make more money, have more things, happy things happen, bad things happen, you lose things, etc. You eventually come to a neutral place no matter matter how bad or good things get.
It's best to seek out balance imo. Do things that make you feel good, but don't destroy yourself trying to be the best, have the best, etc.
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