Correlation between wealth and happiness

There is certain satisfaction of having cash flow and paying all your bills. Happiness is taking/seeking pleasure in the pleasures that you have.

There is a very positive correlation, once you control for the lifestyle cost of becoming wealthy, the types of personalities that might want to live that lifestyle because they so need to become wealthy, and the types of psychological disorders you might have by growing up wealthy.

I never had financial wealth, so I cannot say for certain whether or not it brings happiness. But I can state with certitude, that NOT having money to pay one’s bills for non-luxuries, definitely brings UNhappiness. That said, money cannot buy menschlechkeit, class, and good middos, and these are way more important than the the things it CAN buy,

Oomis, somehow the bills get/got paid, so its only the fear caused by uncertainty that “brings uphappiness”. But all that worry is for naught because we are all still around; fed, with family and a roof over our heads. As the g’mara says: it’s better to be pursued than the pursuer.

I hate to sound like a philosopher here but happiness is totally the wrong word. Money can bring u pleasure and not having money can bring stress but neither one can make a person happy or unhappy. Happiness is a feeling of emotional peace and tranquility, serenity if u will, a feeling of acceptance of everything and anything that u have, and its not easy to REALLY be happy! eg; small children aren’t happy they are in a state of pleasure when that runs out they cry… same with money its not the cause of happiness it def makes u “pleasured” while u have it but dont mistake that for happiness bec if god forbid anything really bad happens to u in life u won’t be equipt to handle it and all ur “happiness” will go right out the window and even if ur a billionaire it won’t make u feel any better…