I get it, money doesn’t literally buy happiness, but it depends on what your definition of happiness is. 99% of people’s definition of happiness is something that you have to pay for.

Like if you have to travel anywhere to feel happy you are spending money in some capacity. Whoever says that money can’t buy happiness literally doesn’t know what life is like without money. If you don’t have a lot of money, then having money will make you happy, but if you have been in an environment where you’ve had money all of your life, then it won’t buy happiness. I’d rather be unhappy on a private jet than trying to worry about rent.

• For lower-income people, the increase in money is buying financial stability (reducing financial insecurity), which is the cause of much unhappiness. Once that is eliminated, money really can’t buy happiness

• As a person that was unemployed and scored a 120k job this year.. yeah, it makes a big goddamn difference

• I think the key is “enough money”. A happy working-class family has enough to be happy, even if they can’t afford luxury trips

• If you’re poor like most, if you get a little bit of money it is rewarding and life-enhancing. Then if you go up a rank and get even more money coming in, people start comparing themselves to others. They are happy to be getting more money than most, but the upward trajectory of their income, means they start comparing themselves to millionaires.

• This is how I see it. I was not the most happy when I held the highest paying job of my entire life. Money opens doors. But it does not guarantee happiness.

• Having money can take away money related stresses which will make you happier, but it doesn’t “add” happiness beyond that point like say a loving partner would. I earned less than $20k but didn’t have much money related stress as a uni student and I was just as happy as I am now with a decent salary after graduating. If I was earning <$20k with two kids I definitely wouldn’t have been so happy.

A 17-year-old shared her story online that she got fired cause she was told to man her counter and she was not allowed to go to the toilet until the shift finished.

Here is what she said:

I’m 17 and I just got fired from my job because I couldn’t hold in my pang sai for 2 more hours, they told me I couldn’t go and I couldn’t hold it so I was gone

Not even 10 minutes and my manager said I had an attitude by saying “I wasn’t in there for 15 minutes and I told my coworker I was going” I don’t want my job back, just want to inconvenience the establishment so how can I do that as much as possible.

Netizens asked her which company was it:

• Which lan jiao shop is this?

She replied: I don’t want to get into trouble for revealing the shop’s name cause the law protects the rich if she sues me I’m dead.

• Your manager wanted you to pang sai in your pants ah? You should notify your manager’s manager.

• Remember this, generally everyone always has a boss or a manager, so, if your manager fired you for needing to go to the toilet, talk to their manager to ask against what corporate policy that is exactly? There should be a HR policy that prevents you to go to the bathroom.

• Also the length of your bathroom break should not be their issue here, only that it was a genuine bathroom break and you weren’t pretending just to get out of work. The last thing we need is for companies to start setting policies for how long is the maximum time it should take to take a dump. try not to dwell on any argument about length of break and steer it back to the question of whether it was genuine which it was.