A surprising fact is that after basics are covered, extra money often just raises your wants instead of your happiness. My opponent might have a fair point about comfort, but I still feel money mostly buys stress relief, not real joy. I’m not sure how to argue it better.

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Money can't buy the things that actually sustain happiness, and past a point it buys ecological damage instead. The other side is right that cash gives access to water and food, but money doesn't create soil or clean water, it just allocates them, and overconsumption degrades them. The data is pretty clear: wellbeing gains flatten once basics are covered, and richer countries haven't gotten happier as GDP climbed. So money can buy comfort and stress relief, sure, but not the stable climate and healthy ecosystems that real wellbeing depends on.