"How do you know it was nothing?" "He has plenty of money."
I love this argument. That money can not buy happiness. That may be true but the lack of money can surely buy you misery. Having been dirt poor for most of my adult life and then not so dirt poor and then finally financially secure, I know how money has affected my sense of well-being. I know that having piles of money can't make me more happy than I already am, but having enough for rent and food goes a long way toward setting me free to pursue happiness.
I saw a comedian once who brought up this argument. He said, "Money can't buy happiness but it can make all the people around you miserable." He talked about going to a hated relative's birthday and bringing them a ten-dollar gift card and a hundred-thousand-dollar...cake. "You'll never taste something so rich again."
That is a little mean and I would never do such a thing. Maybe a fifty-thousand dollar cake.
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