Only rich people say money doesn't buy happiness.
My favorite take on the sentiment is that money doesn't buy happiness, but it can rent it for a little while.
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Isn't this like blind people saying blue is overrated?
Honestly that mostly seems to be a sour grapes thing to convince themselves they wouldn't be happier with more money.
In my experience, that's not often the truth of the matter.
I specifically commented further up that it's bizarre to claim that money doesn't buy happiness, because it pretty obviously does, at least up to a certain point. But I also remember times in my life where I've comforted myself by pretending that being poor was a virtue instead of just being shafted by life and circumstance and I've heard similar thoughts expressed by others.
Which is meant to be flippant, but there's truth in it. The rise and grind folks that spend their existence chasing money often forego hobbies. And then they achieve success and become sort of lost. Maybe they buy stuff to rent happiness for a while, but without any underlying interest or passion, it's just stuff, and can't provide any lasting happiness. That's why so many successful people go back to work, because it's the only thing they know how to do.
I just know if I end up with a giant pile of cash, I'm paying for my whole team to go racing as much as we'd like.
Money buys therapy and psychiatric drugs for people who aren't open to happiness but are self aware enough to realize it.
Nothing does shit for the unaware, Money or otherwise.
Unrepentant assholes with money are just better at spreading their misery, which is as close to happiness as some misanthropes can get.