[at-l] Re: Can money buy happiness article.

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Adams" <stephensadams@hotmail.com>
To: <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>
Cc: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:51 PM
Subject: Can money buy happiness article.


> Jim,
>
> Reference your post, dated 6-18-03.
>
> I haven't read the article, so I may be way off base.  I am responding to
> the principle subject heading, "Can money buy happiness(?)"
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> If your argument is circular, it has no meaning.
>
> If your argument isn't circular, a slight paraphrasing, which "almost"
says
> the same thing, comes perilously close to, "money can buy happiness, if
> you're sufficiently shallow to equate material acquisition with
happiness."
>
> Steve
>
> P.s.  I'm uneasy; my logic may not be as tight as it should be.  The
> foregoing may contain major holes.

Boy, you guys sure know how to rain on a parade. My response was to the
article posted in a link provided by someone else. It was not a seriously
thought out argument in debating/logic terms. It was simply an extension of
my reveling in the freedom that retiring has given me. Then someone had to
go and warp it into a discussion of suicide. Are you all depressed or
something? *For me* the monthly checks that I now get without having to drag
my butt into work every day = freedom that I have never had before in my
life and the freedom has made me happier than ever before. Some people might
have be happy with nothing but I'm not an ascetic. Some might not be happy
being the richest man on Earth (Bill Gates feels 'cheated' out of millions
by software pirates). That's their good or misfortune (as applies).