great thread, but this sort of thing always strikes me as "nerds reinventing basic concepts"; this saying is very clearly not saying "money can't make you happy", but rather that money on its own can only do so much for you, and can't solve the hardest problems, which is true
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I now despise the saying "money can't buy happiness". Money absolutely can buy happiness, and I've been conditioned to think it can't, and tha…
https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1409205712039956481
these things are not meant to be taken nearly as literally as some (typically nerds) do; clearly there's an assumption implicit in the saying that all the life problems which could be solved w/ money, already have been. bc if not, why are we even discussing this? just buy stuff
who needs to be told "if you have a problem which money could solve, use money to solve the problem"? how could this be of use? who would not use money to solve problems if they could afford to do so? perhaps, then, that's not what the saying means, & you merely misinterpreted it
money can only ever bring you to zero, it can never take you past that; so perhaps what you are perceiving as money bringing you happiness, is merely unhappiness leaving you, instead