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Yes, but you can actually use money to make yourself happier. Studies have shown that spending it on someone else will increase your own happiness. Give $100 b
by curun1r 10y ago
Yes, but you can actually use money to make yourself happier. Studies have shown that spending it on someone else will increase your own happiness.
Give $100 bills to homeless people. Buy nice things for all your friends and family. Hell, with that kind of money, you could look into houses that are about to foreclose and anonymously pay off the mortgages. The only reason I've ever wanted to be rich is to see how creative I can get about spreading that wealth around to do some good.
- kristopolous 10y agoYou could start such a debt relief fund right now. Write a mission statement, get some website together, some bylaws... File for not for profit status... It's harder because people would want some demonstrable efficacy and results before hopping on board... That's not a bad thing
- philipov 10y agoHanding out windfalls carries a lot less stress and commitment than starting a struggling nonprofit. If we're talking about ways to buy happiness with money, starting a nonprofit is not a substitute for money.
- kristopolous 10y agoOK but we have to look at how much. If you're sitting on say $500,000, just through accumulation, with no intention of using it, then how will adding a zero or two change that? Does some goal or ambition miraculously appear? It might... Perhaps this puts new things in reach. The crux of the argument however is that unless those things are something intimately personal like starting a serious art collection or buying a private jet, you could arguably get the money. And if they are personal itches then you likely won't get them fixed through materialism. There's decent $100 paintings and $20,000 airplanes you can split between 3 or so people (ie, $5,000 a person). This is actual money, yes. But it's not 1%er status.