Given how often studies like this float around, here's what I've learned from past comments I've read: - Those who don't have money, and are therefore forced t

Given how often studies like this float around, here's what I've learned from past comments I've read: - Those who don't have money, and are therefore forced to be more self-reliant, generally would like the opportunity to have more money because they envision how it would make their lives easier. - Those who have a lot of money tend to downplay the importance of having money, generally because it's more about what the money gets you than the money itself - having options to not deal with things you don't have to. - Money is the vehicle to providing life-enhancing value for yourself in the sense that it can be exchanged for what you want/need. This is what provides happiness. I could have 1 trillion Zimbabwe dollars, but if I can't gain anything meaningful I want with it, then just the number alone isn't going to make me happy (aside from a blip of an ego boost).