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It’s funny how emotional responses questions like this become on part of the people answering everything but the question. If some one asks in a sports forum wh
by florbnit 1y ago
It’s funny how emotional responses questions like this become on part of the people answering everything but the question. If some one asks in a sports forum what the best exercises are that pro tennis players do that novices don’t know about you wouldn’t expect the majority of answers being in the line of “Tennis players never experience true love! If all you have is tennis you’ll be depressed!”
- ludicrousdispla 1y agoFor many tennis players, love means nothing.
- alexey-salmin 1y agoSo it does for many ordinary people. Money can't buy happiness but nether could the absence of money. It's not really a good argument against money.
- Cipater 1y agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-origin-of-love-in-tennis https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-origin-of-love...
- alexey-salmin 1y agoAh, funny, thanks. I guess it's one of these things that rich people know and I don't.
- huhkerrf 1y agoI'm pretty sure the person above you is making a joke, because "love" equals zero in tennis scoring.
- Black616Angel 1y agoWhat? Money absolutely CAN buy happiness. What do you even talk about? Probably all of the current problems in my life could be solved with money.
- decimalenough 1y agoThe old joke is that money can't buy happiness, but it certainly can rent it for a while.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoOr a more modern tweet, money can't buy happiness but it's more comfortable to cry in a mercedes.
- arkey 1y agoNah, money can buy pleasure, security, confidence, comfort... but happiness is not necessarily a consequence of that. Some rich people live a very unhappy life. I wouldn't trade places with them for their money. CAN you be happy because you have money? Yeah, why not. WILL you be happy if you have money? No guarantees at all.
- portaouflop 1y ago>Money can't buy happiness It always depends on the circumstances and the person but generally I would say that money can definitely buy happiness. I think that sentiment is mostly cope by those less wealthy.
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- m463 1y agoSometimes the question is really asking something else. In this case, it might seem to be "what trick can I use that ultra-wealthy use?" or "how can I be prosperous on a budnget" but it really is "what is it like to be rich?"
- y7 1y agoAlso, "extremely rich" is like "extremely successful in life" to a lot of people. But for the latter, emotional connections are also important.
- IshKebab 1y agoYeah but I really wanted to know what rich people buy that I don't know about. The top answer - while vaguely interesting - didn't actually tell me anything I didn't already know. I think the conclusion is probably that they don't buy anything we don't know about.
- tinco 1y agoOne thing I didn't quite realize is that they accidentally spend significant amounts of money. At a party I talked to someone who was like a financial coach for super wealthy people and he helps them clean up their shit. The way we might accidentally have a running $50/mo subscription for something we don't use any longer, they might have a $500/mo club membership they never go to. Or prebooked vacation rentals they don't visit, or maintenance on cars they don't use, etc.
- hgomersall 1y agoThis is it really. Being wealthy is the ability to live financially inefficiently without concern. That is very liberating.
- arizen 1y agoThey are optimizing for the scarce resource - which is time, since they got money in abundance.
- demarq 1y ago[dead]
- KolibriFly 1y agoLet people be interested without turning it into a philosophy seminar every time.
- Flamentono2 1y ago[dead]
- adamcharnock 1y agoI think this could be super unpopular around here, but here goes: This is a symptom of societal unfairness. In this case there are different ways to react, but this is one of them. Tennis isn’t oppressing anyone, so no one is getting emotional about the pro tennis players knowing all the tips. But the story since the 70s has been that you can have anything you want if you just work hard enough and are skilled enough (particularly in North America and the UK). Which means that if you don’t have something you want, then it is no one’s fault but your own. Except in realty there are a whole host of external factors that influence once’s ability are accrue nice things. It’s hard to reconcile these two things in our minds. We don’t have any narrative except the current one. So either we accept that we’re simply not good enough, or we accept things are broken with no solution. The former is often the most emotionally tolerable. So when people see people with more than them, they don’t think, “good for them, we all choose how much we want to work for and I’m happy at my level”. Instead there is a collision of irreconcilable thoughts, and what comes out is, “they’ll never know what true love is”.