The "money can't buy happiness" crowd always pictures a miser counting gold coins. That's a strawman. Money buys the boring stuff that makes happiness possible: a roof that doesn't leak, a dentist visit, not choosing between groceries and your insulin. Once basic stress is gone, money buys time, which is the only raw material happiness is made of. Sure, it won't buy love. But it'll buy you a couch to cry on, and that's more than poverty ever gave anyone.

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