This is Optimal Finance Daily, Episode 2258.

Only the poor or super rich say money can't buy happiness, by Sam of financialsameraid.com.

And I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast Diana Mariam.

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Only the poor or super rich say money can't buy happiness, by Sam of financialsameraid.com.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness is either poor or wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.

The incessant amount of studies by researchers trying to prove money can't buy happiness

is simply a result of the researcher's own poverty or unhappiness.

Because they're financially mediocre, it seems researchers are trying to console themselves

that it's okay not being wealthy.

Sounds harsh I know, but we can't truly know how rich we can feel until we're actually

making a lot of money, otherwise we're just pontificating.

Generally, researchers have a higher sense of self because they have more educational

training, hence it tears them up when they see other lesser beings make more than them.

Meanwhile, those who continue to highlight research stating that money can't buy happiness

are trying to justify their own financially unspectacular selves as well.

The poor and financially mediocre are in cahoots.

You see the financially mediocre are all in cahoots with each other.

They've banded together to proclaim that being middle class regular people is good enough.

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