Money doesn’t make you happy, but it sure as hell gets rid of the stuff that makes you sad.
So if I had money, I could make all the bigots that harass my friends and I for being queer disappear?
No, but you could all move to a less bigoted area with money. Or even build your own village.
Some corrupt people are as cheap as 27 000$
Yo yes with money you could buy some politics
With enough money: yes
What a myopic response.
“I’ve never seen anyone sad in a Ferrari. In fact, I’ve never seen anyone in a Ferrari, I’ve only seen the Ferrari as I pass by the dealership showroom.”
Lamborghinis, on the other hand… I once saw a farmer driving his Lambo tractor truck! And while I didn’t get a good look at his face, it was still awesome.
Even a John Deer costs 100k to 350k so farmers on their tractor are driving Ferrari and Lamborghinis.
Money cannot buy happiness. What it can do is give you the means to remove barriers to happiness.
You almost never see anyone happy in a Ferrari either. Look inside one and you’ll see someone with the same blank expression that you see on everyone driving and anyone on the bus. Despite what car commercials drill into your head no car will change that meh feeling.
To an extent, yes. But that’s because you can’t use the car for its intended purpose at a stoplight or grid of roads. I guarantee you when that driver takes his car to the curvy mountain roads he is grinning ear to ear, or having a hell of a time at the very least.
Initially yes, and they were probably grinning ear to ear when they first bought it, just like we were all grinning ear to ear when we first drove by ourselves, but once the novelty and excitement wear off it goes back to the meh face.
It’s like skiing/snowboarding, the first couple times you go down a run your having a great time, but once it doesn’t become a challenge then it loses its excitement and fun. With skiing though theres a lot more elements of variation (trees, bumps, jumps, narrow trails, grade variations, snow conditions …) to keep things interesting whereas driving roads can only vary with curves and grades, both of which are in a much narrower band of variation for safety reasons.
There’s a reason tons of people spend tons of money every year going skiing but not too many people are renting super cars to go and drive around the hills.
Perhaps you’re right. Anecdotally, though, I loved every second of the two years I spent in my coupe.
Yeah, this dude has never spent time behind the wheel of a nice sports car. Shit is sooooo fun.
Even a shitty sports car is a blast. I had a lot of fun in my manual BRZ.
A manual BRZ is far from a shitty sports car. Hell, it’s more agile than a lot of $100K+ ones.
A shitty sports car is like… an old Saturn Sky? Or older.
Oh I drove a Saturn sky and wrecked it. That car was fun but I was too young to properly gauge its quality.
You’re right, BRZs are excellent handlers. I just… hated the torque dip so much. I also didn’t like the boxer 4 it had; squeaky even in optimal conditions.
Yeah. They don’t sell it with a better engine because it would embarrrass more expensive cars, kinda like the Porsche boxster/cayman (which whispers handle better than the 911).
Old Miatas were like that too :(. Though I don’t know what Mazda’s excuse is these days, as the Miata is their top sports car?
When I moved away after high school my parents sold the old Volvo station wagon I was driving, decided the newer Volvo wagon my mom had been driving would be what my younger siblings would drive, and with strong encouragement from my younger brother, my mom picked up a used Boxster thinking that she’d never have to do the carpool line again. This was after the dot-com bubble burst and there was a surplus of used Porsches for relatively cheap. Somehow they found one as an automatic transmission back then, but it was still the best car I’ve ever driven as far as the handling goes. I loved the GTI I bought later, but that Boxster was a different level. At the speed limit it was almost like the car was steering itself because it was so effortless, and it was easy to go double the posted speed limit without realizing it if there weren’t other cars around.
It really is. It’s almost half as much fun as bombing down a winding forest road with no car traffic on a bicycle.
Between 250-400bhp depending on weight is the sweet spot IMO. I’ve got an old 996 and it’s so much fun away from traffic.
I have an older 911 and that is just fun to drive. It’s just a fancy go-kart. My little Grom is also a blast to ride.
I was deeply confused to see a bunch of Ferraris outside of some huge institution in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island. Take a high performance vehicle and put it in the most tightly packed, narrow, curvy-street urban area in America with the possible exception of Boston. Why don’t you go ahead and take a snowmobile to Hawaii, while you’re at it.
This is such an over rated trope and coping mechanism 🤣
evErY rICh peRSoN is SAD!
Not what they said, read it again 😊
The top person is standing in front of a Lamborghini. Money apparently can’t buy education either.
stupid people are generally hapier
I feel confident that plenty of Ferraris have caused their owners a great deal of sadness, along with joy
Money can buy you a lack of poverty which eliminates a main but not the only barrier to happiness.
I thought we were here to talk about F1 😔
Money can’t buy happiness or intelligence, proven buy the richest man in the world
Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure can help. Funny line, but it’s also true that much of people’s stress that filters into relationships and health is money related.
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure gives you a much better bargaining position.”
Exactly. Money buys breathing space, and that’s essential for actually building things to be happy about in one’s life
Money cant buy Happiness, but given the choice I’d rather do my crying in a Bentley.
The only thing money buys you is the burning desire for a lot more money.
Money may or may not be able to buy happiness, but I’d be glad to test that theory :)
Poor Charles
Unluckiest man on planet earth
Money cannot directly buy happiness, though it can indirectly buy happiness. Objects, medicine, therapy, experiences can all be bought. All of them can lead to a happy life.
Updated version: more money only makes you happier to the point, where you don’t have to worry about affordability. After that, it get’s stressfull needing to have more and more.
No, i’m not talking from experience. There was a study done.
