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Money & Happiness Under Capitalism (media.mas.to)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Money can't buy happiness" is a great mantra for rejecting the capitalist enshirining of wealth as a virtue. It's important to see happiness as something more complex than income.

The issue is that when interpreted as "poverty is no excuse for unhappiness", it loses all valid meaning.

See also: "Life isn't fair"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Alternatively, we could say "money can buy happiness, and that's the problem".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

And yet Elon Musk doesn't appear all that happy lately