“Money is not exactly equal to happiness, but it’s definitely a big part of your happiness.” – Zonkatron
“Money can’t buy happiness.” It is one of the most repeated idioms in human history, passed down through generations like a comforting bedtime story. We teach it to children, preach it in popular culture, and whisper it to ourselves when checking our bank accounts.
Here is the inconvenient truth: money absolutely brings happiness.
Having financial security buys freedom from crushing debt, access to quality healthcare, stable housing, nutritious food, and the ability to handle life’s unexpected crises without falling apart. Yet, despite this undeniable reality, society stubbornly clings to the old myth.
Why Money isn’t Happiness?
Whatever you have enough of, doesn’t bring you happiness anymore, or more precisely, you don’t notice how much happier you are with it than without it – because it’s available!
When you are healthy, pain-free, and full of energy, do you spend your morning jumping for joy simply because you can breathe clearly? Rarely. Good health becomes your baseline—a invisible background setting you take for granted. But the moment you drop sick with a high fever, a severe migraine, or a chronic injury, that baseline vanishes. Suddenly, good health is the only thing that matters, and recovering it becomes the sole source of prospective happiness.
Why Money is Happiness?
For example, Samuel L. Jackson pushed back hard against romanticizing poverty: “Those who say that money can’t buy happiness never had to pay for anything.” Jackson points out that for the vast majority of humanity, money solves the exact problems that cause daily suffering and unhappiness.
The Zonkatronic Truth
“Happiness is just the result of removing all sources of unhappiness. One big source of unhappiness for 90% of people is having much less money than needed. Once this problem is solved, you are definitely a little happier than before, but you might still experience unhappiness because of some twenty other problems you could be having like anxiety, restlessness, addiction, loneliness, chronic pain, or insomnia. Money can solve a thousand problems, but it doesn’t solve all problems that could still give you unhappiness. That’s the whole truth about money!” – Zonkatron
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