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The hill I will die on: Yes, money can buy you happiness – if you spend it right | Eleanor Margolis
W hen wages have stalled for nearly 20 years and I recently came face to face with a tube of toothpaste that was nearly £7 in my local Sainsbury’s, the idea that money can’t buy happiness seems almost offensive. It wasn’t an expensive trip, but I hadn’t exactly been transported into this winter wonderland by the sheer force of my will to bear witness to beauty. ” But just because money can’t buy Musk happiness, that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t buy happiness (or at least lay happiness foundations) for the billions of people struggling financially.
