• Dem Bosain@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    When people tell me ‘money doesn’t buy happiness’, I tell them ‘it removes a lot of anxiety’.

    These people don’t have any anxiety anymore, and believe they can do anything. Most of the time they’re right.

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      7 months ago

      Money doesn’t buy happiness, it’s merely a pre-requisite for health, safety, freedom of movement, education, and social standing.

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        7 months ago

        health, safety, freedom of movement, education, and social standing

        Which all contribute severely to your happiness.

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      7 months ago

      Money can’t buy happiness, this is true, but it sure buys a shitton of opportunities to feel happy…

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        Plus a bunch of stuff that was illegal when you were poor suddenly becomes perfectly legal if you’re rich enough to pay the associated fees.

        I mean, sure the police call them “fines”…but still.

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      7 months ago

      Once your basic needs are met money can’t really make you that much happier. They did a study on a bunch of people and they found that once you have all the needs met you can’t buy happiness

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    7 months ago

    If you are poor with outlandish ideas, you are crazy. But if you are rich, then you are eccentric, entrepreneurial, or a maverick.

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    7 months ago

    True. J.K. Rowling didn’t have shit to say about trans people when she was on the dole.

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      7 months ago

      Maybe she had shit to say but no one would care. There are plenty of nobodies with similarly crappy opinions but no one pays them any attention.

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        7 months ago

        Insofar as I recall she wasn’t TERF’y until well after the books and movies. Most folks could ding her for during that time period was the goblins and some character naming.

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    7 months ago

    Do you all actually act sane or is there some nuance I don’t understand?

    You’d have to be mentally ill for that to be case, I think.

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      7 months ago

      To clarify, are you saying that you’d have to start off with some mental illness to be able to act like you didn’t have it?

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        7 months ago

        Not sure if I’m stepping to a bait, but only insane people would have the need “to act sane”, right?

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          I’m not baiting, it just seemed like you might have been trying to call someone mentally ill and i was making sure that wasn’t the case.

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    I think you need money to meet your basic needs. When it comes to really wealth people acting crazy it is usually just media overhype. If they are crazy it earned them a lot of money