(September 25, 2013 at 4:28 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Actually, it depends on one's view in relation to the money that decides if it provides happiness.
In most cases, earning the money only makes one miserable.
However, spending the money is what provides the happiness only if one has the means to spend it on what really makes him happy. Most people have to spend it on bills, which only makes them more miserable.
Sick and twisted loop we have conned ourselves into in relation to the monetary system.
He directly said that he'd like/be happy to work there. Which is why it's the shoe-in.
Well, my happiness is directly related to whether my very specific comforts are being met. And right now, they definitely are, despite making considerably fewer than 20K this year... and I've been able to donate and otherwise loan a good bit of that out.
It's not about spending money... it's about being able to survive easily and to have the things you *need*
Part of why stability is much better than nonstability.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
