Money Doesn T Buy Happiness Research Paper

“Money doesn’t buy happiness.” That’s what the people prior to us tell us, the next generation, but they tell us as they are sitting in their paid off Ford F150 with their fancy new iPhone watch and college tuition loans paid off. Because they are done, they have no daily stresses because they have “made it” in the real world. The rest of us, not the 99% not swimming in pools of diamonds, but the rest of us middle classers, 50% of Americans (Thuy Vo 2012), bring home less than 1,000 dollars a week, don’t (Matthews 2012). But that guy who owns an airport and seven jets sure looks a lot happier than the single mom with three kids who works 70 hours a week. Obviously, if we all had a choice, we’d all pick the guy. With the money he has he is able to do anything he wants, and not worry about …show more content…
A lot of people keep calling happiness “relative.” But it has been said so many times that people just glaze over it and don’t truly understand happiness, they think it has to do with something of how you are doing in your life, specifically, with your successes. Comparing your successes such as an education, relationships and most importantly (especially in our materialistic saturated society) m-o-n-e-y. Everyone keeps sizing the people next to them to how ever much they make and how they are their own influence in that (working too hard or merely working: both bragging). That’s why happiness is relative, because it is relative to you and only you. The success of true happiness is looking into other people’s bowls to see if they have enough-- not if they have more than you. Because the money from the lottery is just a materialistic ability to make your life not as bad, does not mean your life will be better because everyone else’s life is worse than you. Your happiness is only based on you, and the money you win on a scratch off ticket from 7-11 will only change the bad things, but only you can your life and make it a great