Comment on If all the money in the world can only make you look as good as elon musk or jeff bezos there is truly some things money can't buy.

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not trying to shit on you but I know for a fact there are some golden retrievers that only feel pure joy 24 hrs a day.

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That doesn’t make me jealous.

    The fact that we have bred a specious to be happy and bring us happiness imo like our best accomplishment.

    Also, I can’t think of a single billionaire who is a bit dog person.

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    • LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Queen Elizabeth II

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    • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Putin?

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      • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I guess yeah but I see him as closer to Hitler and Hitler famously did like dogs

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah but those golden retrievers usually have food provided to them and they don’t need to worry about it.

    Even golden retrievers get rather depressed when malnourished, although the way we humans have bred them means they’ll still look somewhat optimistic.

    For humans the “money can’t buy happiness” limit used to be something like 50-70k, closer to 50k in Europe and 70k in the US, but that was like 15 years ago so now it’d be something closer to 70k in Europe and 100 in the US. What that means is just that you can afford decent housing, transportation, all the necessities, and have a bit left over.

    Up to that point money dramatically increases happiness. After that, it doesn’t really have an effect anymore. Making a million a year doesn’t mean you’re any less happy than making a billion. But making 100k a year versus 30k a year is a massive difference.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Making a million a year doesn’t mean you’re any less happy than making a billion.

      Eh, I had a boss years ago who owned a temp agency. His income from the business was about $40K per month and he lived in a beautiful beach house and drove a nice Mercedes and ate out at great restaurants every day etc. etc. No financial problems whatsoever but his friends were all west coast venture capitalists worth hundreds of millions of dollars and he absolutely seethed with resentment at how relatively poor he was.

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