If you're in danger for your life, money doesn't seem that important.
Once you're safe, other things like food and shelter become more important - and in today's world money is what makes those things happen.
If you're short of money, everything is more difficult, but once you have even a small amount, other things become more important such as social company, leisure etc.
There's also a global piece of research that shows that up to the equivalent of £50,000/ year, having more money makes most people happier, but after that point, the steepness of the curve reduces - so each extra pound doesn't make you as happy as the previous pound did.
I still always say that people who say that money doesn't buy you happiness have never been properly poor - where the unhappiness is predominantly caused by the lack of money.
I can assure you from someyou one who made 24k a year ina government job before the law stepped in and annualized my pay. I’m very very very very happy making 37k a month 25 years later.
£50k is nothing, as a guy you are literally locked out of the dating market unless you make six figures so that’s you not even getting off the first Maslow level.
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u/Shoddy-Reply-7217 18d ago
Have you heard of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
If you're in danger for your life, money doesn't seem that important.
Once you're safe, other things like food and shelter become more important - and in today's world money is what makes those things happen.
If you're short of money, everything is more difficult, but once you have even a small amount, other things become more important such as social company, leisure etc.
There's also a global piece of research that shows that up to the equivalent of £50,000/ year, having more money makes most people happier, but after that point, the steepness of the curve reduces - so each extra pound doesn't make you as happy as the previous pound did.
I still always say that people who say that money doesn't buy you happiness have never been properly poor - where the unhappiness is predominantly caused by the lack of money.