Winning $20 M Won't Make You Happy

Deepak is his older brother.

They have a road show/song and dance going.

 

Well, if you had ever been poor, you'd know that money buys happiness. Sorry, you failed a bit there on the convincing. For you it is the opposite, as you grew up wealthy.

So you have never been poor.

Dude, give it all up and lose the home and lose all your material shit, and learn what it means to be poor before you speak of this again. I'm a Klingon your ass!

I forgot the reason I was thinking of this show, but it had something to do with Klingons.

 

Well you get an F grade for having failed the topic. It's not about whether poor people appreciate money or not. It's whether lots of money buys happiness or not.

 

How would you know? You have never been poor? 20 million is not going to make Buffet or Gates etc happy. But it will make shmoes like us happy.

 

If money buys happiness then why do so many wealthy people commit suicide ?

 

That is a non-sequitur. Why do so many poor people commit suicide?

 

I would go as far as to say that winning the billion plus dollar lottos is actually a curse.

 

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2019628,00.html

you can adjust the $75000 with inflation... but there are many studies on this type of thing.... above basic needs, more money does NOT buy more happiness... in other words money does buy happiness only to a certain extent.

but more money does bring more sense of achievement.

 

Like eating the last slice of pizza is not as good as the first slice. Dimishing marginal utility.