“Money can’t buy happiness” is a great mantra for rejecting the capitalist enshirining of wealth as a virtue. It’s important to see happiness as something more complex than income.
The issue is that when interpreted as “poverty is no excuse for unhappiness”, it loses all valid meaning.
“Money can’t buy happiness” is a great mantra for rejecting the capitalist enshirining of wealth as a virtue. It’s important to see happiness as something more complex than income.
The issue is that when interpreted as “poverty is no excuse for unhappiness”, it loses all valid meaning.
See also: “Life isn’t fair”
Alternatively, we could say “money can buy happiness, and that’s the problem”.
And yet Elon Musk doesn’t appear all that happy lately