<story><title>Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/10-personal-finance-lessons-for-technology-professionals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aedron</author><text>Quite a disagreeable post, in my opinion.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Which leads me to the &amp;quot;but money can&amp;#x27;t buy happiness&amp;quot; position so many people have repeated over the years. Bull. Shit. Anyone who has ever said that simply doesn&amp;#x27;t know where to shop.&lt;p&gt;If happiness for you is about things you buy in shops, then you are a shallow person, and you are missing out. A lot. In fact you are poor, but in a spiritual sense. The next statement: &amp;quot;money spent on physical items can bring people a huge amount of pleasure&amp;quot; reinforces the impression that you have some concepts confused.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s great to have cool stuff, and thanks for the probably sound advice on how to achieve that. You don&amp;#x27;t have to try to convince (yourself?) that this equates happiness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loeg</author><text>Eh, to each their own.  If Troy enjoys expensive cars, what the hell.  It&amp;#x27;s his money.  I&amp;#x27;m not into expensive toys either but I don&amp;#x27;t judge other people for &amp;quot;materialism&amp;quot; and feel superior about my woo-woo individuality &amp;#x2F; spirituality.&lt;p&gt;I would agree with Troy&amp;#x27;s conclusion that &amp;quot;money buys happiness,&amp;quot; but take a different tack.  Money buys financial security, and financial security buys avoiding many kinds of hardship and grief.&lt;p&gt;You can have money and be unhappy, and you can be evicted because you can&amp;#x27;t meet rent and be happy, but it&amp;#x27;s probably easier to be happy when you aren&amp;#x27;t worried about paying the bills.</text></comment>
<story><title>Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/10-personal-finance-lessons-for-technology-professionals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aedron</author><text>Quite a disagreeable post, in my opinion.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Which leads me to the &amp;quot;but money can&amp;#x27;t buy happiness&amp;quot; position so many people have repeated over the years. Bull. Shit. Anyone who has ever said that simply doesn&amp;#x27;t know where to shop.&lt;p&gt;If happiness for you is about things you buy in shops, then you are a shallow person, and you are missing out. A lot. In fact you are poor, but in a spiritual sense. The next statement: &amp;quot;money spent on physical items can bring people a huge amount of pleasure&amp;quot; reinforces the impression that you have some concepts confused.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s great to have cool stuff, and thanks for the probably sound advice on how to achieve that. You don&amp;#x27;t have to try to convince (yourself?) that this equates happiness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PurpleRamen</author><text>He is not saying all hapiness can be bought with money, but it&amp;#x27;s quite obvious that many things that make one unhappy can be solved with money, as also many things that make people happy are bought with money.&lt;p&gt;And I&amp;#x27;m not even talking about objects. For most people having something good to eat and a warm cozy place to live is already happiness. A happiness most people in the world can&amp;#x27;t afford BTW.</text></comment>