I disagree. Money not being spent is potential. Just like the difference between potential and kinetic energy (money being spent). Depending on the person, that potential might be enough to facilitate happiness.

As mentioned earlier, we all know money can't buy happiness. Why? Because happiness is just like love, hate, terror (haha, apparently some politicians don't realize this).. it's an abstract concept that you can't buy or hold. Thing is, though, money can facilitate the acquisition of happiness.

It's a bit tough to be happy when you can barely find the cash for food.

I love when wealthy celebs like Oprah or Madonna talk about how money isn't important, then after they finish the interview they hop in their $300k car and then on their $15 million private jet and that whisks them away to their $10MM luxury mansion loaded with millions of dollars in furniture and a housestaff and assistants who are paid to kiss their asses and cater to their every need.

:Graucho

I'd rather be rich and unhappy than poor and unhappy.

would you rather be rich and unhappy or poor and happy?

lol I like when girls do that bullshit

Why are girls full of shit for wanting time with their guy more than they want a fat paycheck at the end of the week?

You guys bitch about women being golddiggers, and then complain when they want quality time more than they want money.
Make up your damn minds! :1orglaugh

I've lived the years of not seeing the hubby for days at a time because he worked out of the house 16 hours a day. He was bringing home a LOT of money then.
But what good was it? None at all. He was never there for me and the kids, and that check was *not* a replacement for him.

I've done the "search the house for change so we can buy a loaf of bread" thing and I've done the "let's go blow $400 in ten minutes without a single regret" thing.

Things are easier when you've got money, but that doesn't automatically mean things are happier.
Family is always more important than money. And generally (not always), the folks who have money are so busy getting more that they neglect their family and lose it.

HAPPINESS CANT BUY MONEY!!!!!!

and it cant buy a house lol good one

what good is the potential energy, if its converted mostly into heat because of friction and you get very little kinetic energy out of it? money is worth it only when its spent for the right things. some people dont know how to do that, they waste their money, or they dont spend it at all before it loses its value, then its never converted into "kinetic energy" (or happiness).

hmm, thats a tough question, I'll have to think about that.......

and we have all already agreed it does. :)

well said

no money = no beauty lady
99% truth
more money = everything include 'love'

are liars!!

u can't buy love and care

Money is important, but I would prefer to have living money (here we can have a good living with $2k per month) and be happy and healthy than make thousands per day and be unhappy and/or have healthy problems.

Oh, and money can make me work for you, see sig :Graucho

You can't? You just don't know where to shop for them! :thumbsup

Money is #1, period. If it's not #1 in your life then you've got your priorities and values screwed up.

:Graucho

"It aint necessary to be rich and famous. It's only necessary to be rich."
-Alan Alda

no it's not,it's 'The Only Thing':thumbsup

:1orglaugh



100 bones

100 big smackers

$100K and an old beat up Gateway? :1orglaugh


:thumbsup

That's a beautiful photo, almost brought tears to my eyes. Keep making money! :thumbsup

thanks

Monopoly money! :1orglaugh

i think it means nada to you because you've got it sat there.

I'm sat here with a packet of fucking chips. $100k would mean a damn lot to me right now :winkwink:

Money isn't important.


People are more motivated by a lack of money.

Hardly. People are more motivated by the potential of having even more than they already do.

By your reasoning, Bill Gates must be the most unmotivated guy out there when it comes to getting even richer.

those who say that money is not important are hypocrites!!

Money might not equal happiness, but it surely does make misery easier to bear...

Money is a tool...and a very useful one.

And, while you can't buy health....you might stave off death if you have enough money to buy the best care.

And, maybe people will only like you for your money..but you can find those who have more money than you do who don't care about your money.

I'll take the money.

By your reasoning people wouldn't want to spend their money. They'd rather horde it so as to always have "more" of it.

As for Bill Gates, I'm not inside his head so I really can't comment on what motivates him and what doesn't. Money isn't the only motivator, and at his level I expect power is just as much if not more of a lure than money.

Another factor to consider since you brought up Bill Gates is diminising returns. If you were to offer $1000 to Bill Gates and someone earning minimum wage, in exchange for a service of some sort, the person earning minimum would likely go to much greater lengths to earn the money than Bill Gates would.

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