The Importance Of Money And Happiness

Money can provide a lot of opportunities for people like never before, in which people have more choices in what they can do. But happiness is not necessarily the result for people with a high income. Only after considering all the aspects of the issue, one will realize that “money can, to some extent, create conditions that promote happiness, but it cannot buy happiness in the absolute meaning of the term” (Aamir). For example, if you are a materialistic individual, people are only going to want to be around you for your money. Once the money is gone, so will the people be gone too. Money cannot buy the internal things that makes a person happy. Internal things such as the people you love or your friends and family cannot be bought. Many people

And this is what a lot of people fail to understand. People think that having a lot of money is the number one thing they need in order to be happy. If not money, then what are some of the number one things that make people happy? In a questionnaire that was done, some of the world’s richest entertainers, lottery winners, philanthropists and others were contacted to determine whether or not money is the number one thing that makes them happy. Even though they had a lot of money, “Something else was missing. Sometimes it was a relationship or lack of significant other” (Lewis-Jack). There are internal things that are priceless that makes a person happy. Such as family and

Adequate healthcare access is a basic human need. Not having appropriate affordable health insurance can bring on a lot of stress to a person. In a survey that was done, researchers from the institute for the Study of Labor in Germany used a combination of techniques to discover the relationship between happiness and health care access. In doing so, the team included a four year long survey. The author found “evidence that not having the ability to see a doctor because of an inability to pay is a major and substantial source of unhappiness in the United States, even for people with high income” (Thompson). In the same study, they found that people who could not afford to see a doctor were unhealthier, both physically and mentally. The survey findings revealed lower levels of life satisfaction and well-being when people are unable to get the care they