{"id":41857,"date":"2016-05-18T10:07:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T09:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=41857"},"modified":"2021-01-13T10:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T10:42:41","slug":"money-cant-buy-happiness-thats-just-wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/05\/18\/money-cant-buy-happiness-thats-just-wishful-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Money can’t buy happiness? That’s just wishful thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know when I don’t have any I can be very stressed, but who would have thought it.
\nFor me money only represents security.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

For others I suppose its different. What I do find most unpleasant is the undue influence unelected people with money have over others. It’s all about the power?<\/p>\n

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\"PoweredThis article titled “Money can’t buy happiness? That’s just wishful thinking” was written by Ruth Whippman, for theguardian.com on Tuesday 17th May 2016 18.04 UTC<\/a><\/p>\n

Money can\u2019t buy happiness: it\u2019s a rarely questioned truism. It also tends to be most enthusiastically embraced by those who have never gone without it. \u201cI\u2019ve tried hard to care about money,\u201d Chelsea Clinton once humble-bragged, \u201cbut I couldn\u2019t.\u201d No matter how attached we are to the idea that money can\u2019t buy happiness, though, the research shows almost the complete opposite. <\/p>\n

After community and social relationships, the association between income and wellbeing is one of the most robust in the happiness literature. And a new study<\/a> demonstrates just how deep-seated that psychological link is, how intricately our financial circumstances weave their way into our psyches. <\/p>\n

Money doesn\u2019t just shield us from obvious daily stresses, this study tells us, but can actually buy us the most basic of our psychological needs \u2013 human connection. The higher our income, the less likely we are to experience loneliness. <\/p>\n

This study builds on a wide body of research<\/a> giving a similar message. Although money is clearly no guarantee of contentment, and there are anomalies in the data, as a general rule, the better off we are financially, the happier we are<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But yet we still restate our fridge-magnet mantra about the irrelevance of money to happiness over and over again, a cosy boast of our lack of materialism. And in recent years, with the advent of the highly influential \u201cpositive psychology\u201d movement, this idea has been given a new academic respectability. <\/p>\n