Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.
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Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economically.
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