你真的相信金钱买不到幸福吗？我想它可以。从假期到良好的健康状况，钱可以让你负担得起更好的生活，获得更好的医疗保健，食物和住房。

Nicole Sansone
, Born in America

，出生于美国

The saying “money can’t buy happiness” has its origins in 1750 in a proverb written by Rousseau. The proverb goes like this: “Money buys everything, except for morality and citizens.” This basically means that if you are to be pure and whole, then you shouldn’t expect money to fill that hole.
It is true that money makes your life easier and more comfortable and of course, gives you more opportunities and power.
But in reality, rich people are as depressed as other ppl.
Humans adapt and easily get used to stuff so a big villa doesn’t bring them joy if they are stressed out or depressed or sick.
Look at American celebrities more than half suffer from depression and other mental illnesses so even with access to the best specialist they go to rehabs and come back and relapse. Many go through divorces and can’t hold onto healthy relationships. No matter how much you have break ups suck
So of course as a whole, it is more comfortable to have money but with money also comes pressure and stress. Your company or your brand or your image relies on growth. Yes people lost their jobs during the pandemic but also companies struggled so CEOs had a lot of pressure to find solutions.
The point is that money alone doesn’t make you happy. It depends a lot on your environment and support system. If you have a happy family and strong friendships and a toxic-free workplace and of course most important if you are healthy. If not you won’t be happy. If money could help you find love for the rest of you life then why do all the billionaires get divorced ? They can hire the best family therapy councils
Of course, you may get better care but Steve Job still died too young so all the money did not prevent him from death.
Britney Spears got abused for more than 13 years when not her whole life. Many things look more glamourous on the outside. I doubt you would like to exchange your life with Britney Spears.
So just because you are wealthy doesn’t mean you are happy.

"金钱买不到幸福 "这句话是起源于1750年卢梭写的一个谚语。这句谚语是这样说的。"金钱可以买到一切，除了道德和公民"。这基本上意味着，如果你要成为纯洁和完整的人，那么你不应该指望金钱来填补这个漏洞。
诚然，金钱使你的生活更容易、更舒适，当然也给你更多的机会和权力。
但在现实中，富人和其他人一样，都会感到沮丧。
人类适应并容易习惯于一些东西，所以如果他们有压力或抑郁或生病的时候，一个大别墅并不能给他们带来快乐。
看看美国的名人，超过一半的人患有抑郁症和其他精神疾病，所以即使有最好的专家，他们也会去康复中心，回来后又复发。许多人经历了离婚，不能坚持健康的关系。不管你有多少钱，分分合合总是很糟糕。
因此，当然整体上，有钱是更舒服的，但有钱也带来了压力和紧张。你的公司或你的品牌或你的形象依赖于增长。是的，在大流行期间人们失去了工作，但同时公司也在挣扎，所以CEO们有很大的压力来寻找解决方案。
问题的关键是，仅靠金钱并不能使你快乐。这在很大程度上取决于你的环境和支持系统。如果你有一个幸福的家庭和强大的友谊，有一个纯洁的工作场所，当然最重要的是你是否健康。如果没有，你就不会幸福。如果钱可以帮助你找到一生的爱，那么为什么所有的亿万富翁都离婚了？他们可以雇佣最好的家庭治疗服务机构。
当然，你可能会得到更好的照顾，但史蒂夫-乔布还是死得太早，所以所有的钱都不能阻止他的死亡。
布兰妮-斯皮尔斯被辱骂了13年多，而这还没到头。许多事情在外面看起来更有魅力。但我怀疑你是否愿意与小甜甜交换你的生活。
所以，仅仅因为你很富有并不意味着你很快乐。

Bob Wuest
, Author, Upgrade Your Lifestyle: 10 Keys to Happiness

，作家，《升级你的生活方式：幸福的10个关键》

You make some interesting points in your question. I'll address them individually.
Vacations? A great source of fun and pleasure, no doubt leading to momentary happy feelings and wonderful memories.
But what's your state of mind when you're not on vacation?
Momentary happy feelings are great! But they aren't indicative of a happy state of being — AKA true happiness..
Good health? Health is its own topic, completely independent of happiness. There are many with excellent health who aren't happy, and others with chronic disease who are. Many cancer survivors say their bout with cancer was a huge personal growth experience — I've personally heard two people say it was the best thing that ever happened to them, because they learned to value life more.
So let's set health aside as its own virtue, at best only loosely related to happiness.
Better health care, food, and housing? There's a whole lot of stress, anxiety, and frustration associated with substandard levels of these important aspects of life. If that's the condition you find yourself in, more money would seem to be the solution to a happier life. Because more money can ease these emotional burdens — and thus improve your subjective well-being (AKA happiness).
But, according to multiple studies (one referenced HERE), there's a sweet spot around $75K annually (for Americans) — beyond which more money has no bearing whatsoever on happiness levels.
So the question is this — is relieving emotional burdens equivalent to happiness? Or is it just reducing stress, anxiety, and frustration (which we might term unhappiness)?

你的问题中提出了一些有趣的观点。我将逐一讨论。
假期？这是乐趣和快乐的一大来源，无疑会带来一时的快乐感受和美好回忆。
但是，当你不在度假时，你的心态是什么？
一时的快乐感受是很好的！但它们并不代表你的心态。它们并不代表一种快乐存在的状态--也就是真正的快乐。
良好的健康状况？健康是另一个话题，完全独立于幸福。有很多健康状况很好的人并不快乐，而其他患有慢性疾病的人却很快乐。许多癌症幸存者说他们与癌症的斗争是一次巨大的个人成长经历--我曾亲耳听到两个人说这是发生在他们身上最好的事情，因为他们学会了更加珍惜生命。
因此，让我们把健康放在一边独美，充其量只是与幸福有着松散的关系。
更好的医疗保健、食物和住房？在生活中这些重要方面的水平不合格确实会让你产生压力、焦虑和沮丧。如果你发现自己处于这种状况，那么更多的钱似乎是解决更幸福生活的方法。因为更多的钱可以减轻这些情感负担--从而提高你的主观幸福感。
但是，根据多项研究（里面提到的一项研究）表明，在每年收入7.5万美元左右有一个幸福顶点（对美国人来说）--超过这个点，更多的钱对幸福水平没有任何影响。
所以问题是这样的--减轻情感负担等同于幸福吗？或者它只是减少压力、焦虑和沮丧（我们可能称之为不幸福）？
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We all want to be happy.
When we're not, it's a common tendency to look around and decide what more of this or that (i.e., money, material goods, influence, friends, lovers) we need to fill that gap, then set off in the direction of acquiring more of it.
Simple fix, right? Earn more money, or meet the partner of your dreams, and *poof* — instant happiness forever and ever more!
Wrong.
Everyone's heard variations of the old adage:
Happiness comes from within.
The reason you've heard it so many times: because it's absolute truth.
But you can't change truth.
You can argue with it all you want. You can distract yourself by stubbornly adhering to your idea that more money's all you need to be happier.
But double your income, youre still not happy. You still feel like more money will get you there. Double it again, and you're still chasing more.
You're on a hedonic treadmill, friend. Continually running harder and faster, and going nowhere — at least as far as happiness goes. Sure, you have nicer things, more exotic vacations. But you haven't moved your Happiness Dial one small bit. Because you're still denying truth.

我们都想获得幸福。
当我们不快乐的时候，通常的倾向是环顾四周，认为我们需要更多这样或那样的东西（即金钱、物质产品、影响力、朋友、爱人）来填补这个差距，然后朝着获得更多东西的方向出发。
很简单的解决办法，对吗？赚更多的钱，或遇到你梦想中的伴侣，然后*噗*--瞬间获得幸福，直到永远！
错了。
每个人都听说过这句老话的变体：
“幸福来自于内心。”
你之所以听了这么多次：因为它是绝对真理。
你无法改变真理。
你可以随心所欲地提出你的观点与之争论。你可以通过顽固地坚持你的想法来分散自己的注意力，即更多的钱是你需要的，以使你更快乐。
但你的收入翻倍，你仍然不快乐。你仍然觉得更多的钱才会让你达到目的。再翻一番，你仍然在追求更多。
你是在一个跑步机上追求幸福，朋友。不断地努力奔跑，速度越来越快，但却毫无进展--至少在幸福方面是如此。当然，你有更好的东西，更多的异国假期。但你并没有把你的幸福拨号挪动一小步。 因为你仍然在否认真理。

So what to do?
If you're truly seeking happiness (which we know arises from within) you don't need to change what's out there. You need to change what's in here.
Your beliefs and thoughts. Your sense of self — self-awareness, self-confidence, self-esteem. Adopting new ideas about where to devote your attention, and time, and energy.
Social scientists — who devote their lives to the study of happiness — say that it derives from focus on family, friends and community, spirituality, and benevolent service to others.
I'd add to that a focus on self-development and evolving your emotional intelligence.
This answer is too long.
Most of those who are dug-in on the idea of money being the happiness panacea haven't read this far. So I'm preaching to the choir — those few among Quora readers who truly are seeking happiness, and are open to new ideas about how to achieve it.
As a super happy guy who has discovered the formula to personal happiness, and a researcher of the science, philosophies, and psychology of happiness, may I suggest you follow me.
Namaste!

那么该怎么做呢？
如果你真的在寻求幸福（我们知道幸福来自内心），你不需要改变外面的东西。你需要改变里面的东西。
你的信念和想法。你的自我意识、自信心、自尊心。采用新的想法，将你的注意力、时间和精力投入到那里。
社会科学家--致力于研究幸福的人--说，幸福来自于对家庭、朋友和社区的关注，灵性和对他人的善意服务。
我想在此基础上再加上对自我发展和提高情商的关注。
这个答案有点太长了。
那些沉浸在金钱是幸福灵丹妙药的想法中的大多数人不会读到这里。所以我只是在向唱诗班宣讲--在Quora的读者中，那些真正在寻求幸福，并且对如何实现幸福的新想法持开放态度的少数人。
作为一个发现了个人幸福公式的超级幸福的人，以及一个研究幸福的科学、哲学和心理学的人，我建议你跟着我。
合十礼!

John Knettle
You make good points. I don’t disagree with them. Nevertheless, I believe that money can be a great conduit to happiness. Whether or not it is depends on how it’s used I suppose. There’s also the important question of how we define happiness or how we consider ourselves happy.

你说得很好。我并不反对他们的观点。尽管如此，我相信金钱可以是通往幸福的一个重要渠道。它是否是幸福的源泉取决于如何使用它，我想。还有一个重要的问题是，我们如何定义幸福，或者我们如何认为自己是幸福的。

Bob Wuest
John Knettle
Bingo — how it's used is far more important than the amount you have or earn.
And yes, there's no pat answer to what happiness is. Social scientists use the term subjective well-being rather than happiness because it's a far more universal term when they're studying subjects.
My definition — for what it's worth:
Satisfaction with the world around us. It may not be ideal, but it's acceptable. We can want more, but we're not attached to getting more in order to be satisfied with life.
Contentment with who you are. We all have things we want to improve about ourselves, but we accept and appreciate who we are today.
Peace of mind — not entirely free of stress and anxiety, but we've developed the resilience to prevent it messing with our mojo.

你说对了--如何使用它远比你拥有或赚取的金钱数额更重要。
是的，对于什么是幸福，没有一个明确的答案。社会科学家使用 "主观幸福感"一词，而不是"幸福"，因为当他们研究对象时，这是一个更普遍的术语。
我的定义--就它的价值而言：
对我们周围的世界感到满意。它可能不是理想的，但它是可以接受的。我们可以想要更多，但我们并不执着于获得更多，以便对生活感到满意。
对自己的身份感到满意。我们都有想要改善自己的地方，但我们接受并欣赏今天的自己。
心态平和--并非完全没有压力和焦虑，但我们已经发展出弹性，防止它扰乱我们的内心。

John Knettle
I applaud your ability and willingness to put forth such a clear definition. And to exemplify how far definitions can vary, Aristotle said something along the lines of let no one be declared happy when living. The happy life can only be judged upon its conclusion.

我赞赏你如此明确提出幸福的定义的能力和意愿。为了说明定义可以有多大的差异，亚里士多德说过一句话：不要让人在生活中被宣布为幸福。幸福的生活只能在其结束时被评判。

Bob Wuest
Who cares whether you're “declared” happy?
People who are truly happy live by their own standards, rather than the judgments of others.
I haven't seen the Aristotle statement you referenced, but if you can find it please drop it here. The idea of being judged happy by others is foreign to my understanding of his philosophies.

谁在乎你是否被"宣布"为幸福？
真正幸福的人是按自己的标准生活的，而不是按别人的评判。
我没有见过你提到的亚里士多德的声明，但如果你能找到来源，请把它放在这里。让他人来评判你是否幸福的想法对于我对他的哲学的理解是陌生的。
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Wesley Warren
Some people thrive on stress, but I've always been happy with a sunrise and a decent cup of coffee. Weed helps everything in my world. Retired at forty one from epilepsy, I'm lucky to have had such a full and busy life. Now fifty six, it's a good thing I raised five children, installing flooring and playing bars. The peace and quiet is beautiful because of all that.

有些人在压力下茁壮成长，但我总是以日出时一杯体面的咖啡为乐。在我的世界里，大麻能对一切都有所帮助。四十一岁时因癫痫病退休，我很幸运能有如此充实而忙碌的生活。现在五十六岁了，我养育了五个孩子，安装地板之余去酒吧玩玩。因为这一切，生活是和平和安静美好的。
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John Knettle
, Geography Professor, Adjunct
While many of the happiest times of my adult life have been with low income, I still believe that money properly used can bring great happiness.
Basic security for self and family. Try being happy without it.
I’ll expand on the great vacations to also include chances to engage in great adventures including volunteer work; university studies (yes, they can be very happy times of life if balanced well and fit properly); participating in disaster relief missions—yes, many require the volunteer to foot most of the bill.
Engage in capital ventures. Being one’s own boss and following a professional ambition can bring happiness to a lot of people. That’s jsut their optimal mindset.
Gives one the courage and makes for wiser decisions in contemplating taking chances—I don’t mean daredevil risks—like pursuing alternative commitments in life.
Being able to give your wife and children opportunities and some things that mean a lot to them. A nice home, nice and dependable cars, sports and other recreation equipment, books, art supplies, music, etc.
Reality check. Even when I haven’t had the money in hand, being supported by money has been a great contributor to the happiness I find in life. For example, when I was a Peace Volunteer, I enjoyed the life so much that I extended for a third year, and continued extending beyond that. While not having so much money in hand, I had at least more disposable cash than most of the people I was working with. I was already in an exciting and exotic place, so vacations were cheaper than if somebody tried to do the same things from a US base. I also had terrific health and legal coverage. That’s a big expense. I wouldn’t have tried nearly so much without it.

虽然我成年后许多最幸福的时光都是在低收入的情况下度过的，但我仍然相信，金钱的正确使用可以带来巨大的幸福。
1.自己和家人的基本保障。你可以试着在没有它的情况下能不能保持快乐。
2.我将可以拓展伟大的假期，也包括从事伟大的冒险的机会，包括志愿者工作；大学学习（是的，如果平衡得好、适合，它们可以是生命中非常快乐的时光）；参与救灾任务--是的，许多需要志愿者支付大部分的费用。
3.参与资本创业。做自己的老板和追随职业理想可以给很多人带来快乐。这可以给予他们最佳的心态。
4.给人以勇气，并在考虑冒险时做出更明智的决定--我并不是说敢于冒险，如追求生活中的其他承诺。
5.能够给你的妻子和孩子提供机会和一些对他们意义重大的东西。一个漂亮的家，漂亮而可靠的汽车，运动和其他娱乐设备，书籍，艺术用品，音乐，等等。
6.对现实的掌控力。即使我手中没有现金，有金钱的支持也对我在生活中找到的幸福感有很大帮助。例如，当我去做和平志愿者时，我非常享受这种生活，以至于我延长了三年，并在这之后继续延长。虽然手里没有那么多钱，但我至少比大多数和我一起工作的人有更多可支配的现金。我已经在一个令人兴奋和充满异国情调的地方，所以度假比在美国那边做同样的事情要便宜。我也有很好的健康和法律保障。那是一笔很大的开支。如果没有它，我不会尝试这么多这些事情。

Norman Garcia
, Sales (2003-present)
Sure it can buy temporary pleasures and short happiness but the human brain is not wired for continuous happiness. I didn’t make this up. You can Google it and read about it psychology and psychiatry books. We are wired for SURVIVAL. The seemingly happy financially poor people in the Philippines is because they’ve lowered their expectations of themselves and their standards of living so they are content with what they have. But most of the poor people there are not happy. I know, I’ve lived there for 14 years. All I know is that a good earning will relieve stress from financial pressures in living in a civilized society. Pablo Escobar had rooms full of money but he was still not happy. Somebody was always trying to capture or kill him. Bill Gates is not happy. His wife has left or in the process of leaving him.

当然，它可以买到暂时的快乐和短暂的幸福，但人类的大脑并不适合持续的幸福。这不是我编出来的。你可以在谷歌上搜索并阅读有关的心理学和精神病学书籍。我们的大脑是为了生存。菲律宾那些看起来经济上很贫困的穷人感到幸福是因为他们降低了对自己的期望和生活标准，所以他们对自己所拥有的东西感到满意。但那里的大多数穷人并不快乐。我知道，我自己在那里生活过14年。我所知道的是，在文明社会生活中，一个好的收入会缓解经济的压力。巴勃罗-埃斯科瓦尔有满满一屋子的钱，但他仍然不快乐。总有人想抓他或杀他。比尔-盖茨也不快乐。他的妻子已经离开或正在离开他。

Anne Eastman
, Phd Mathematics from Purdue University (2000)
It all comes down to Maslow’s scale. You can’t be happy without shelter, food, water and safety. So if you are lacking any if those things, you will not be able to even pursue happiness until you have this basic security.
Once your basic physical needs are met though, happiness comes from many sources and I would say love and a full social life and sufficient social support are much more important than money to overall happiness, as is the desire and energy a s health required to reach self-actualization.
After basic physical needs are met, including health care, I don’t see that money plays any role whatsoever in happiness; in fact, so many of the rich are so greedy and “poor in spirit” that I don’t see how they could be happy.

这一切都归结为马斯洛的标准。没有住所、食物、水和安全，你就无法获得幸福。因此，如果你缺乏任何这些东西，你甚至无法追求幸福，直到你拥有这种基本的安全。
一旦你的基本生理需求得到满足，幸福就会有很多来源，我会说爱和完整的社会生活以及足够的社会支持对整体幸福来说比金钱更重要，就像达到自我实现所需的欲望和精力以及健康。
在基本的生理需求得到满足后，包括医疗保健，我不认为金钱在幸福中能起任何作用；事实上，许多富人是如此贪婪和"精神贫乏"，以至于我看不出他们有何幸福可言。

Valentin Gheorghian
, Architect
Existential question that I have pondered many times about…
If I sit down with a pen and paper and write down all the “problems” I have in life right now, major issues….or just areas of my life that I am not really happy about - AKA that need work and improvement -
I will come up with 15–20 issues.
There is not a single one of these 15–20 issues that couldn’t either be completely fixed - using money [for example: I don’t have a place of my own to live in, and renting causes huge amounts of stress especially when there is no job security] or at least tremendously improved - using money [for example high-end specialized healthcare - which is expensive]
So there you go….

这是一个我曾多次思考过的存在主义问题......
如果我坐下来用笔和纸写下我现在生活中的所有"问题"，主要的问题....或者只是我生活中不太高兴的地方--也就是需要工作和改进的地方--我会想到15-20个问题。
这15-20个问题中没有一个是不能用钱来完全解决的--[例如：我没有自己的住处，租房造成了巨大的压力，特别是在没有工作保障的情况下]，或者用钱至少可以有巨大的改善--[例如，高端专业医疗--这很昂贵]
所以，你懂的....

Ricky
, Certificate from New York Institute of Photography (2009)
Money has its limitations when it comes to buying happiness. Having the basic needs is an important side that money is essential for. There’s more to happiness than just that. Happiness is achieved by tapping into one's inner strength. Finding your ability to be self reliant in making your way in the world. Discovering that you already know inside the best path for you to follow and not always rely on handouts and suggestions that are detrimental to your path in life. Finding and living your passion is a vital element in gaining inner happiness and contentment. Being positive day by day saying I can do this is one of the leading factors that leads to inner happiness.

在购买幸福方面，金钱有其局限性。要满足一些基本需求金钱必不可少的。但是幸福不仅仅是这些。幸福是通过挖掘一个人的内在力量来实现的。找到能够让你自力更生地在这个世界上闯荡的能力。发现你内心已经知道的你要走的最好的路，而不是总是依赖那些不利于你人生道路的施舍和建议。找到并活出自己的激情是获得内心幸福和满足的重要因素。每天积极乐观，对自己说我能做到，是产生内在幸福的主要因素之一。

Tim Benton
, Journalist at 0censor (2017-present)
I have had times in my life where I was making 5 and 6 figures a week, at other times I have made 3 and 4 figures a month.
When I was with a lot of money, I was able to buy things, not worry about finances, but never found happiness.
I have found more happiness with no money, a woman that loved me and a child I adored then when I had a lot of money and did not have the love of either.
The only good news is now that I have money, and I am not in the same level I had been in the past, I am far more happy, not because of the money I have, rather the ones that love me are around me.

在我的生活中，我曾有过一周赚5、6位数的时候，也有一个月赚3、4位数的时候。
当我有很多钱的时候，我能够买很多东西，不用担心财务问题，但从未找到幸福。
在没有钱的情况下，我找到了更多的幸福，一个爱我的女人和一个我喜欢的孩子，而当我有很多钱的时候却没有得到任何一个人的爱。
唯一的好消息是，现在我有了钱，而且不只是过去的水平，我的幸福感大大增强，当然不是因为我有了钱，而是爱我的人在我身边。
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Aaron Weinberger
, Science enthusiast
Yes but at certain point it can’t get you anymore healthy and food can only be so good and be worth it. And to me there is no point in having a billion dollar mansion when a multimillion is more than large enough for anyone. At so point the return you get is kind of pointless or not different to what you already have. Science has found that 60k a year us the ideal amount to earn to be as happy as possible. At that level you don’t have to worry to much about money and live fairly comfortably and afford things like health care. After that the returns start getting smaller.

是的，但在某些时候，它不能让你更健康，食物再好也只能是那么好而已了。对我来说，拥有10亿美元的豪宅是没有意义的，因为数百万美元对任何人来说都足够多了。在这一点上，你得到的回报是毫无意义的，或者说与你已经拥有的东西没有区别。科学发现，每年6万是可以尽可能让你快乐的理想收入。在这个水平上，你不需要为钱担心太多，而且生活得相当舒适，还能负担得起医疗保健等事情。在这之后，回报开始变小。