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    7 months ago

    “Money can’t buy happiness” is a great mantra for rejecting the capitalist enshirining of wealth as a virtue. It’s important to see happiness as something more complex than income.

    The issue is that when interpreted as “poverty is no excuse for unhappiness”, it loses all valid meaning.

    See also: “Life isn’t fair”