Chirag Ratra
@Ratra · 1:05
Money buys happiness
And if your basics are not covered, you can never be happy. You want to romanticize that even in poverty you can be happy if you have friends and family along? Well, that's just bullshit. And I'm sick and tired of this agenda on the internet that people will not let go of this statement that money cannot buy happiness. Well, money does buy peace of mind. And I feel happiness starts after there is some peace in your mind. Yeah, that's it
Yes, if you ask me to choose between friends and money, I will choose money. Because friendships mostly depend upon money. And, yes, people who taught people who say money can't buy happiness, I think they are from privileged by ground and they have not seen what is poverty. But yes, money is very important nowadays. And I heard people saying money is what money is next to God. And I think that's true
Probably going to take your own life. Wealthy people commit suicide. So I don't believe that money can make you happy. It can. If you're poor and you may think it looks too happy, you maz think it can bring you happiness. It will bring you happiness. Don't get me wrong. It will bring you happiness. But after a while, money cannot bring you immortality. Let's be honest with that
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 4:59
There was a time when the classified ads in a newspaper, they would come on a Sunday and they would give you the things that you could buy. Like think of any festival and a festival discounts, and the whole page was full of adverts. 10% discount here and 15% discount there, and buy this and that offer and all that. And so I found a lot of happiness trying to go through those ads
Chirag Ratra
@Ratra · 1:47
My entire reason to put this swell is just this, that you cannot make a blanket statement that money cannot buy happiness. That is why I made a provocative statement that money decant by happiness. And actually yeah, for below powery line people, it does. And I think if you also take mass law's hierarchy of needs, the first three needs in the pyramid come from money. And then the pyramid tops with self actualization
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 3:38
Hi. I remember having a really long john debate on the same topic on this exact topic with four or five years ago with one of my teachers back in school when I was in class twelve and it was our. English period and we were reading this story, the model of which carried and at times, if you read it that way, you can deduce it as saying that money doesn't buy you happiness. And that's exactly the model that a teacher sort of deduced from the entire text
Chirag Ratra
@Ratra · 0:41
Exactly. That's what I've been trying to say. Because these liberal duplicates will say such statements without even realizing that such statements are actually offensive to a majority of people, especially in a country like ours, where the income inequality is so much that someone comes up and says, oh, Tesla doesn't matter, Array bro. Just ask someone who doesn't have it. Anyway, good to see you being not on my side, but the side of sheer logic and rationale
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 4:46
If we can solve for that problem by reskilling them, upskilling them, and government is doing an initiative called Future of Skills, in case you want to know. Then there will be a reduction in poverty. Then the happiness definition will shift to something else. And so to make a blanket statement, even for the sake of argument, that money can buy happiness does not hold true, in my view. Also touching a link. It's a scientific study on does money really make you happy or unhappy
So just enough money to be happy, comfortable, warm and well fed. That's important pursuit of money is wrong. It's just plain wrong, because then you end up chasing something which is imaginary. So, yeah, the goal is not to make money, but the goal is to live life the way you want to live, which is to be comfortable, happy, well fed, warm, snug, cozy, whatever you want to call it, all right? A market light
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 3:28
Not even ignore I mean they of course won't have the time to spend with their closed ones, with their dear ones. But yes, it's important that we have enough money, that we are comfortable, that we can afford a living that allows us to have the sort of mental peace that okay, I have stuff to fall back on. I have enough
My simple point is how much can a man cherish? You have an iPhone, you have an iPad, you have a nice notebook computer, you have a couple of decent cars, you live in a nice house, you have good clothes to wear. So I don't know, I'm trying to get this, I'm trying to shape my thinking here. But I think that's all you cherish, right?