“Money literally can buy happiness — studies showing otherwise are just cope”
Agree
- Removes every source of daily stress
- Enables experiences that create genuine joy
- Health care and security require wealth
- Poor people are measurably less happy
Disagree
- Hedonic adaptation makes wealth meaningless eventually
- Depression affects rich people constantly
- Relationships determine happiness not possessions
- Research shows plateau around moderate income
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