Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 1 year agoI'm not asking to be rich.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square342fedilinkarrow-up11.8Karrow-down151
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minus-squareQueen HawlSera@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·11 months agoMoney “doesn’t buy happiness” was a relic from a time when minimum wage could buy a house and get you through college. Hard to be much happier if you’ve got that.
minus-squareWhoPutDisHere@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months ago“Money can’t buy you happiness…It IS happiness.” John Francis “Jack” Donaghy
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoNo it couldn’t, home ownership has been stable in the US for decades https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N 63% in 1965 and 66% now with the highest in early 2000s, not whenever “minimum wage could buy you a house”
Money “doesn’t buy happiness” was a relic from a time when minimum wage could buy a house and get you through college.
Hard to be much happier if you’ve got that.
“Money can’t buy you happiness…It IS happiness.” John Francis “Jack” Donaghy
No it couldn’t, home ownership has been stable in the US for decades
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
63% in 1965 and 66% now with the highest in early 2000s, not whenever “minimum wage could buy you a house”