It buys temporary materialistic happiness that will end once it is over used. Money can never buy you love, family, and true friends which are the keys to happiness. It will buy you fake friends and once your money is over, those friends are over too.

As The Beatles said: "Money Can't Buy Me Love." That is so true and it can only buy temporary happiness. After the money is gone so too will your friends fall by the wayside and certainly a love interest will go as well...unless you met that person and fell in love prior to the windfall of money in your life. Money can only buy material things that will keep you 'happy' for a moment or two, but nothing lasting because you'll always want more and you'll always want newer or better. Money simply makes life easier to live than living without it or living on a lot less.

money can buy things which bring happiness, and in that sense, yes it can buy happiness. but then again it also depends on each individuals definition of happiness. it may buy one person happiness yet bring another nothing.

If you want to split hairs, and I do, then you can't say that money buys happiness, although you can buy some very awesome things with money. These are the things that cause happiness. Without money, you can still have happiness, it's just much easier to do it with the money to buy things.

Money only buys happiness for a short time. It is like Christmas Day when you are nine. You play with that new toy for a week or two then it just becomes one of the many toys you have, nothing special. Money works the same way, another day another new toy. Trying to buy happiness is like a dog chasing its own tail. Around and around he goes trying to catch something that he cannot. Happiness will never be bought.

My boyfriend just broke up with me, and I'm 100% aware that this, too, shall pass, no amount of money could make me happy right now.

Absolutley not! You should be happy without material things.

Money not only can't bring happiness, in some cases it can actually bring UNhappiness. Think about it. Say you somehow end up with several million dollars. You end up getting in a fight with one of your friends, who then comes back and apologizes to you. Or hell, it could be even simpler than that--you start dating someone. How do you know if they really like you, or just your money? You don't. You'll never know for sure who your true friends are again, and you'll always wonder. You'll have to spend the rest of your life watching out for the huge numbers of phonies that just want your money. I can't imagine anyone being very happy in that kind of situation.

No it can't. Instead when used this way it works something like a drug. This can be seen by what happens when we try to get happiness with it. We find ourselves needing more and more and more to stay "happy", so it is not really making a true, lasting change.

No, money can't buy you happiness. Happiness lies in family, friends, loved ones and etc

But not having any money at all will cause unhappiness

So in my humble opinion an average person needs:

1.People to be with, love and be loved back

2.Just enough money to get on in life (People in most cases can't balance it out between money and friends)

money cannot buy anything but freedom! corruption breeds corruption absolute! maybe if you had enough money in your pocket when you die, hell would let you buy your way to heaven!!! fools

in our capitalistic society, success is measured by how many material things you have (the biggest thing being money). i believe that money will boost your pride to a point where you are over confident and cocky. todays politicians are going through that process right now. pride is the root of our economis problems today.bank owners politicians, basically anyone with a high authority are stealing money to fuel their pride. the zen masters of our world today, people that have reached true happiness, have let go of material things. Remember, you dont own things, they own you.

My friend once said to me "Money can buy things that make you happy therefore money can buy happiness"..i believe that anyone can be happy with or without money...think about it...you have a job that doesn't really pay well your always struggling to get food on the table each week...you have a job that pays great money you can provide all you need for your family and yourself but all your energy gets put into not only keeping your job but doing it well...what are you left with both ways your struggle and your family miss out on getting much of your attention money is the main priority in this society today no argument...it really depends on how you look at a situation to weather you can be happy or not...depending on your mental state i suppose but pretty much money does not buy happiness...the thing thats gets you going through the day is what makes you happy your family of course or friends if you were living in an old shack working hard each day for practically nothing at all at the end of the day when you come home and you see your family there seems to be joy spread right through you so money or no money you can be happy....

Its obvious that money cant buy us happiness. Even if it does, it would be fake or temporary materialistic happiness. Money can never buy us true happiness e.g. family, friends, love. Money also changes people very quickly, and they get ready to sacrifice whatever they have for it and when they come to their senses everything is gone including that money.

Money can help you, but not create something completely non-existant.

poor science, poor write up.

But it does go to explain why there are so many people willing to pay $1000s per year for fleeting "services" like $4 ice cream cones & $5 cups of coffee (10-25X normal grocery store costs). They pay for "experience" rather than the consumable item. My "hard" purchases always make me happier! I get to see & use them 1000s of times over many years!

My dad always tried to buy us out and i know that he does love us but you cant buy love its not right . my mom dosnt have as much money as my dad and she dosnt bother buying me and my older sister out .

It can buy you short-term happiness, no doubt. But if you want to count on it buying you long-term happiness, good luck because it ain't going to happen. Being a truly happy person comes from within oneself; no amount of materialism and money in the world can grant you that. But seriously, it'll buy you short-term happiness... such as, a trip to the country of your choice for a week to relax and tour and so on. It'd be nice to have money so I could do that stuff at the very least, but if I started counting on it to make me happy, I'd probably end up using it the wrong way the same way people that drink so much alcohol think it makes them happy. WRONG. It's a mask.

The late Peter Sellars was being interviewed by Michael Parkinson on TV and he reflected on his life. He said, " You know, when I started out in this business twenty-five years ago I lived in a two bedroom cold water flat above a fish and chip shop. I had to get a bus to work and I had to send the wife out to work to make end meet. Now I have a house in the South of France, another in Hollywood, dozens of cars including a Rolls and an Aston and all of the beautiful women I can handle. But do you think that I am happy?"

(Long pause)

"You bet your life I am f*ing happy!"

( Money cannot buy you love, but it allows you to rent a pretty good skilled substitute by the hour.)

Bullshit.. it can... just not indefinitely... and that is not money´s fault, that is the fault of the human senses, for all constants dull the senses. So if you have a constant flow of money your senses will ruin it......... and the cure..........: DRUGS!..... and when your senses have gotten used to the drugs.....: stronger Drugs.

If money makes someone happy then if they had money they would be happy, if a video game makes some one happy then buying that would make someone happy.

Money buys security, it buys experiences, it buys fun, it buys indulgence without consequence, it buys time.

You can meet the love of you life, a lovely woman with a homely face... then overhaul her.

It's simple. Money can't buy love, but it can make it.

Then again, you can be happy without money. Ie. I wouldn't be happy in a mansion.... I'd be happy in a small cottage style house. I also wonder if maybe the homeless might be very happy, and often I find myself wanting that freedom from stuff and things.

"Psychologists have spent decades studying the relation between wealth and happiness," writes Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert in his best-selling "Stumbling on Happiness," "and they have generally concluded that wealth increases human happiness when it lifts people out of abject poverty and into the middle class but that it does little to increase happiness thereafter."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/43884

Years ago I would have said a clear conscience, security and love give you true happiness, but then along comes someone with an accusation that you dont have the money to fight and you get stuck in a whirlwind of the destruction of everything you have struggled for, finding the love that you thought existed, didn't, there is no security and a clear conscience means nothing when someone has the means and support behind their lies. Give me money any day. At least then there would be an even footing and the provisions for proving innoscence.

This is so true. I feed the homeless once every two weeks. Each time, I think it's a pain to prepare food and rush to the temple on time. When I get out on the streets, I am so happy. I seem to forget about this each time, though. Strange effect. I wonder why people aren't more generous when it works.

Money can sure buy you some happy memories such as an awesome round the world holidays which will make you very happy!

Yes it can. It just doesn't last long. So I guess you could say money buys pleasure.

So if you are an atheist then, yeah. But I'm not an atheist.