• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Context matters. This is an appropriate statement to make to someone who has enough to live a comfortable life but is always chasing more. But to say it to someone struggling to make ends meet is just incredibly disrespectful.

    • Nakoichi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Okay but for the vast majority of us living on the precipice of homelessness and always budgeting for how much ramen noodles we can afford it is crass and insensitive and this meme is calling that out.

      Unless you are advocating mass redistribution of the ill gotten gains of capital please shut the fuck up with this condescending debate pervert bullshit.

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    8 months ago

    after a certain point*

    i doubt someone like elon musk is as happy as he is rich, id argue the opposite.

    being debt free and unworried about cash would make me happier tho

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    8 months ago

    That’s just how rich people say they’re too dumb to figure out what makes them happy.

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    8 months ago

    Money can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a yacht and pull right up next to it