"Money and Happiness"

In what sense are you using "happiness"?

Money can help you to acquire things that make you happy, certainly.

Happiness - Is used in the context of subjectively reported a 'state of pleasure, comfort, satisfaction, et cetera.'

Money certainly makes any unhappiness easier to bear.

Sure it can.

Yes, dammit.

Therefore, Can 'money-financial resources or wealth' predict happiness?

Money buys one options.

In reviewing this issue, one should bear in mind that there is a distinction between ingredients and predictors.

Not in every case, no.

Can you clarify what you mean? Money, financial resources and wealth are things and ideas, so they can't "predict" anything. Are you asking whether these things increase the probability of happiness?

Is this a quiz?

I think so. Paul is a teacher, you know.

money cannot buy you happiness,
living in poverty neither for that matter.

happiness is a state of contentment, one arrives at when
certain things in life satisfy ones emotional needs, and they
don't necessarily have to be connected to money.

Mulling...

Why does poverty go hand in hand with crime? Why are poor neighborhoods almost always unkempt?

I was talking with my daughter today about this subject--and I told her I'd changed my mind. Money can buy happiness.

We were riding down one of the wealthy streets in our town, and she said "This is where all the smartest people in school live." And we had a very interesting discussion (to me) about how money (and the security it affords people) does almost always equate with intelligence. I guess people would think smart parents--parlay into --genetically arranged intelligent children.

I don't buy it for a minute. I do think biology can have an affect, but in most instances the effect isn't that dramatic. I hink nurture/environment is a much more powerful predictor/cause of IQ. I think the stress of poverty (and all that comes with poverty) screws up the learning process/educational experience for children.

Yes. Money can buy happiness. And lack of it can produce a miserable existence.

Apathy?

Personally, I don't think money, or monetary wealth, can per se buy you happiness. As I mentioned earlier, what it can buy you are options ..... and opportunities.

What you do after that could make or break you.

The Money, Happiness Discourse
By Paul Andrew Bourne


Edward Diener among other psychologists have researched for decade the phenomenon on happiness and various determinants. They have concluded that financial resourses, wealth and income are not only associated with happiness, but that they are predictors of this subjective state of man.

Re: The Money, Happiness Discourse


What does that mean?

By Paul Andrew Bourne


A predictor is a statistical jargon, which denotes an item that is causally influence another phenomenon with a statistical degree of certainty.