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Bollocks. Nothing brings me as much happiness and bliss than looking at my bank account balance and seeing that I have 6 months worth of fuck you money. That no
by Swizec 11y ago
Bollocks. Nothing brings me as much happiness and bliss than looking at my bank account balance and seeing that I have 6 months worth of fuck you money. That no matter what happens, I can bankroll my life for 6 months before I have to fix the cashflow situation.
Anyone who says money doesn't bring happiness has either never gone without, given up, or has so much that they can't conceivably spend it.
Experiences are great. So is plastic surgery. If you can afford them.
- pdpi 11y agoCan't recall the source, but there was an article here a long while ago that basically said that basically unhappiness is not just negative happiness, it's a separate metric altogether, and that your overall mood is the combination of your happiness and unhappiness. Under that model, money is rarely good at buying happiness, but it's great at getting rid of unhappiness. Not sure how you'd describe it, but the "fuck you money" fund to me is more about peace of mind and not feeling pressured into stuff I don't want to do than it is something that makes me actively happy.
- agumonkey 11y agoI wanted to say something similar. Money can relieve from one kind of pain, the substrate (shelter, heat, food) not the existential pain (passion, love, independence, etc etc). Now the question, is it better to have one without the other.
- rpgmaker 11y ago> Nothing brings me as much happiness and bliss than looking at my bank account balance and seeing that I have 6 months worth of fuck you money. How about having 2 years of fuck you money? You missed the point of the article. It's not that money doesn't make you "happy", just that there are other things you can buy with money that give you more lasting happiness.
- Swizec 11y ago> just that there are other things you can buy with money that give you more lasting happiness. That makes sense. But I wouldn't prioritize having those experiences above having money. If having an amazing experience put me under my comfort level with money-in-bank, then on the mid-term, they'd make me pretty unhappy. On the very long term, I might remember them as great. Or I might remember them as dumb because I wasted money and opportunity cost. But it's possible that I am permanently biased because I grew up with a very everpresent lack of money.
- purplelobster 11y agoYep. If we sold our house we'd have 6 years of expenses (2 years without). When we hit 25, that's it, no need to work anymore (4% rule).