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Context matters. This is an appropriate statement to make to someone who has enough to live a comfortable life but is always chasing more. But to say it to someone struggling to make ends meet is just incredibly disrespectful.
“Money can’t buy happiness” is a great mantra for rejecting the capitalist enshirining of wealth as a virtue. It’s important to see happiness as something more complex than income.
The issue is that when interpreted as “poverty is no excuse for unhappiness”, it loses all valid meaning.
See also: “Life isn’t fair”
Alternatively, we could say “money can buy happiness, and that’s the problem”.
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The people I know all seem to understand the “after a certain point” concept. Up to a certain point, money is directly connected to happiness, and I my group understands that.
Still, a good meme (or whatever it’s called). A reminder that most thing we want to believe are more important than money are only obtainable with money.
