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Does money buy happiness?
    #18942811 - 10/06/13 11:12 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

When choosing majors, should I choose something I am genuinely interested in? Or something that earns the big bucks?

At the end of the day, is the rich man happy? Or is does he die a pathetic death choking on his own vomit and expensive scotch?

Or is the poor guy happy? The dead broke psychologist who wants to pursue his passion? (Thats me)

I was thinking of doing something halfway, thats interesting and yet not too boring. like bio chem


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: topdog82]
    #18942818 - 10/06/13 11:13 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Go for a genuine interest.


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: Icelander]
    #18942830 - 10/06/13 11:16 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I was pretty sure I wanted to do something like psych as a major and minor in comp sci or double major, throwing in biochem. Comp sci and biochem are damn interesting but not my passion

After a little research:
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/money-buy-happiness-article-1.1458890

But could one argue that correlationdoes not mean causation


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: topdog82]
    #18942863 - 10/06/13 11:26 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I heard a study about this on NPR (National Public Radio) in Dallas, and I'm pretty sure they said people that make $80,000 are the happiest. They said after that it drops down a little and then stays the same. Even up to multi millionairs and shit. So. Yeah. Pick the best job you love that pays $80,000 a year.


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: topdog82]
    #18942881 - 10/06/13 11:32 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Yip. That artical says $75,000 a year. I was close!


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: topdog82]
    #18942924 - 10/06/13 11:48 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I think money buys things that can distract someone from their unhappiness so yes, IMO it does buy happiness.
..Though temporary and in reliance of material things.

For me, (since I don't have money to buy lavish things yet) passion in something also goes a long way to bring happiness.


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: huffinglue]
    #18942928 - 10/06/13 11:49 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

yes, but people don't realize u don't need money to be happy


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: Fuckspice]
    #18943060 - 10/07/13 12:56 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

But you do need money if you want to live privately in any sense with a shelter and food.


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: Withinity]
    #18943237 - 10/07/13 02:41 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

For real dude. You think your 'free'? Try goin somewhere with no fucking money. We'll see how free you are then.


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: huffinglue]
    #18943744 - 10/07/13 08:14 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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For real dude. You think your 'free'? Try goin somewhere with no fucking money. We'll see how free you are then.



exactly. There are two forces constantly pulling at me. one wants to do busiess and finance. Other wants psychology

But all the lgoic in world tells me to do psychology

I guess I willdo psychology and biochem. Both I would expect would be near the 80,000$ range


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: topdog82]
    #18943752 - 10/07/13 08:17 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Money can buys drugs and hookers if that makes you happy then maybe it does. :shrug:

Usually money buys security and comfort not happiness.


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: AWS]
    #18943759 - 10/07/13 08:20 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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Money can buys drugs and hookers if that makes you happy then maybe it does. :shrug:

Usually money buys security and comfort not happiness.



The only drugs I want to be doing in one year are weed and caffiene. I want to remove drugs from my life ASAP. My future, I hope, will be drug free

Also, material shit doesn't exactly make me happy. But I dont wwant to live in a rut. I want the best for my future kids in terms of education and whatnot. And have money for liesurely activities


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: topdog82]
    #18952486 - 10/09/13 12:03 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Happiness really doesn't come from money. It really doesn't. Happiness is actually not really the goal in the end, it's higher consciousness. Use lots and lots of mushrooms and meditate a lot (no thought) and try to expand your mind by experiencing new things.

It's all about consciousness. That's where the good life lies. No millionaire has shit on someone in a kind of wonderland. We've been duped, society dupes everyone. The things which expand and refine consciousness and show us what we're missing are illegal, and instead we're supposed to play in some culture game which leads nowhere.

And all you have to do is get your mind right, it co-creates everything. Once you have got your mind figured out you will be able to be happy at will and that will morph and transform the reality around you into what you are feeling. Go for joy, love and wonder and see what you discover.


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: circastes]
    #18952493 - 10/09/13 12:05 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

In my experience as a broke philosophy major now working a low-paying job at a headshop... go for your passion. So much more fulfilling. I would be no happier slaving away at a shitty job for more money than I am now, working a relatively easy job, having plenty of time to write, and hanging out with my friends.


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: topdog82]
    #18952806 - 10/09/13 04:29 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Personally I'd rather make $1000 a month doing what I love and working for myself, if that option didn't exist I would just hobo off to Alaska or sell drugs.


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: NetDiver]
    #18953351 - 10/09/13 09:03 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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Repertoire89 said:
Personally I'd rather make $1000 a month doing what I love and working for myself, if that option didn't exist I would just hobo off to Alaska or sell drugs.



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In my experience as a broke philosophy major now working a low-paying job at a headshop... go for your passion. So much more fulfilling. I would be no happier slaving away at a shitty job for more money than I am now, working a relatively easy job, having plenty of time to write, and hanging out with my friends.



Thanks. This is exacly what I wanted. Firsthand experience in the same situation

Good luck to both of you in this job market


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: topdog82]
    #18954365 - 10/09/13 01:21 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I agree with Icelander. I know some real assholes with money. One personal injury attorney's wife left him after 13 years and 3 kids. He gave her the smaller $400K house, almost $4K a month alimony, and a million dollars in cash! He kept going through gold-digging women, like the blonde Russian babe he bought a boob job for, a BMW, paid for law school, took around Europe, and she split. She was probably an ex-whore (her vibes were hard-bitten, cynical, atheist, and Soviet), but he makes millions. He is completely dismissive of his own psychedelic experiences and says things like "I NEED a high-performance car." Of course he does (I laughed at him). He needs all kinds of props and the women still dump him.

My wife had a couple of friends who were trust-fund babies and only worked to alleviate their boredom. The female started sleeping with her 'best friend's' boyfriend, and exposed her breasts to me and another guy when our wives were out of the room. The former male friend of my wife's visited us to watch a movie, and he over-stayed his visit. At 2 am, he asked my wife to come over and sit on his lap. She and I looked at one another, and it was so bizarre, we couldn't even laugh. I just walked him to the door and told him it was time to leave. He had enough money to buy a nice house for cash, but he couldn't find an available partner. Suffice to say, both these people are history. They both didn't have to work, could live where they wanted, move around, and both were dysfunctional assholes too.

I only made $76,300 a year (well 212 work days per year) when I lost my job, and that's with 30 years of experience and a doctorate. But I am not derisive, dismissive, arrogant and selfish like my brother-the-lawyer who makes somewhere in the mid six figure range. He has treated me so poorly that I stopped taking his phone calls, and now I have nothing to do with him. Regardless of his bank account, here is a man who when I called him in a panic for some legal advice when my former marriage failed said to me, "I don't want to get involved in your personal problems." When I phoned him to say that I had just left our mother at the hospital, where she died, he asked me "Do you know where she put the diamond ring that she promised my son?" There is more, but I've made my point, which is "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" - Mark 8:36. :shrug:  Follow your bliss, but establish a secure financial foundation. Security is a 1st chakra concern, but without it, the rest of your life (sex, sufficient social status, ability to help others, space to seek and expand, etc.) will suffer. YOU will suffer. Just do not acquire your security on the backs of others. One doesn't need to be rich but one doesn't need to me poor either. The Middle Way, may mean middle class values.


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #18956926 - 10/09/13 10:22 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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I agree with Icelander. I know some real assholes with money. One personal injury attorney's wife left him after 13 years and 3 kids. He gave her the smaller $400K house, almost $4K a month alimony, and a million dollars in cash! He kept going through gold-digging women, like the blonde Russian babe he bought a boob job for, a BMW, paid for law school, took around Europe, and she split. She was probably an ex-whore (her vibes were hard-bitten, cynical, atheist, and Soviet), but he makes millions. He is completely dismissive of his own psychedelic experiences and says things like "I NEED a high-performance car." Of course he does (I laughed at him). He needs all kinds of props and the women still dump him.

My wife had a couple of friends who were trust-fund babies and only worked to alleviate their boredom. The female started sleeping with her 'best friend's' boyfriend, and exposed her breasts to me and another guy when our wives were out of the room. The former male friend of my wife's visited us to watch a movie, and he over-stayed his visit. At 2 am, he asked my wife to come over and sit on his lap. She and I looked at one another, and it was so bizarre, we couldn't even laugh. I just walked him to the door and told him it was time to leave. He had enough money to buy a nice house for cash, but he couldn't find an available partner. Suffice to say, both these people are history. They both didn't have to work, could live where they wanted, move around, and both were dysfunctional assholes too.

I only made $76,300 a year (well 212 work days per year) when I lost my job, and that's with 30 years of experience and a doctorate. But I am not derisive, dismissive, arrogant and selfish like my brother-the-lawyer who makes somewhere in the mid six figure range. He has treated me so poorly that I stopped taking his phone calls, and now I have nothing to do with him. Regardless of his bank account, here is a man who when I called him in a panic for some legal advice when my former marriage failed said to me, "I don't want to get involved in your personal problems." When I phoned him to say that I had just left our mother at the hospital, where she died, he asked me "Do you know where she put the diamond ring that she promised my son?" There is more, but I've made my point, which is "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" - Mark 8:36. :shrug:  Follow your bliss, but establish a secure financial foundation. Security is a 1st chakra concern, but without it, the rest of your life (sex, sufficient social status, ability to help others, space to seek and expand, etc.) will suffer. YOU will suffer. Just do not acquire your security on the backs of others. One doesn't need to be rich but one doesn't need to me poor either. The Middle Way, may mean middle class values.



I was just going to bring up the whole viewpoint of the middle path

Mark, once again. Always giving me deep insight that I couldn't have seen on my own. A truly valuebale shroomerite

Also, I see people like that all the time. It is almost eerie because I have a buddy who is going to clearly be a millionare but is a depressed waste of life due to opiate and alcohol addiction

And yes I want a house. I dont know if I want kids. maybe a ice place to pickup some hobbies. but in the long term there isnt much I really do with money these days. My bills are split between rent, weed ($20 a month), and food. There really isnt much more I want out of life and I figure that I shouldn't become obsssesed with material pleasures

A question to think about: is it the money that makes these people fucked in the head? Or is them? You see, I have freinds that seem exactly like the types to ask someone else's wife to sit on their lap. Completely bizzare behavior and driven to insanity and delusion with thier imaginary concept of "self". But I am 19 and I see my friends growing like this. I don't want to be arrogant, but I feel like I a can see the "dysfunctional assholes" in the making

I will return to this post later and read it over. If I dont make sense, I apologize, I am incredibly stoned


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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: topdog82]
    #18956946 - 10/09/13 10:27 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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When choosing majors, should I choose something I am genuinely interested in? Or something that earns the big bucks?

At the end of the day, is the rich man happy? Or is does he die a pathetic death choking on his own vomit and expensive scotch?

Or is the poor guy happy? The dead broke psychologist who wants to pursue his passion? (Thats me)

I was thinking of doing something halfway, thats interesting and yet not too boring. like bio chem




Yes,

Money buys happiness. You dumb cunts.

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Re: Does money buy happiness? [Re: topdog82]
    #18956956 - 10/09/13 10:28 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Money buys more

but then you want more, and more , constant craving :wink:

money is usually the opposite of happiness

happiness is from being yourself only, then you need nothing
less is more, more appreciation

I used to earn lots of money, but I never was happy doing it, and it destroyed my health
the more you have the less you appreciate what you have often


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