It is believed that happiness and other intangible values cannot be bought for money. This is both true and not quite true. After all, for money a person acquires not only things; financial resources are also an opportunity to realize your dreams, desires, satisfy your needs.
Buy health
“You can't buy health,” people usually say, but if you think about it, the phrase turns out to be somewhat incorrect. Indeed, it is extremely difficult to radically improve your natural parameters. And, if outwardly the body can still somehow be changed, then everyone receives the initial resource of health and vitality from birth. This is a genetic set with all possible hereditary diseases, and chronic ailments acquired during life.
But, having enough funds, you can take care of the uninterrupted work of your own body much better than being in a dire financial situation. So, you can undergo diagnostics in a good clinic, start eliminating identified health problems in a timely manner, purchase expensive drugs for the treatment and prevention of diseases, undergo a course of strengthening procedures, etc. If there is a lot of money, it is even possible to replace some of the organs.
Gain experience and new impressions
With enough money, you can “buy” new life experiences and get new experiences. Traveling, new activities, buying materials for creativity - all this requires certain financial costs. Not having enough funds, a person deprives himself of the possibility of free movement, participation in all sorts of meetings, festivals, holidays.
Instead of visiting world sights, he is forced to look at pictures, and of all travels he can only afford a trip to the country house and a trip to the nearest forest. It seems that there is no need to prove that his "piggy bank of impressions" will be much poorer than that of a better-off person.
Knowledge and skills - for money
There is an opportunity to invest money in your own education and development: go to a good educational institution, complete courses in a specialty of interest, participate in all kinds of trainings and educational programs. Unfortunately, in the absence of sufficient funds, this becomes unrealistic. A person can only be content with self-education. Moreover, to buy textbooks or access network resources, you also need to have at least a minimum of funds.
Pay for love and family
The last argument of opponents that everything in the world can be bought and sold is the assertion that money cannot buy love. It would seem that it is really impossible to acquire a kind attitude towards oneself for a fee, to get real friends and truly close people. But, if you think about it, then this statement is also controversial. No, we are not talking about "selling love", although the latter proves that money can at least buy sexual pleasures.
If you have a lot of money, you can form a social circle that fully meets your needs. So, the hero of one literary work decided to conduct such an experiment: for a fee he hired poor professional actors who were supposed to play the roles of people close to him: friend, wife, child, etc. He detailed the terms of the contract, described how he would like to see the behavior of each of the characters in relation to him, and for some time enjoyed life: he had an ideal environment that he could only dream of. When the girl who played the role of his wife really fell in love with him and expressed her readiness to become his wife without any financial support, he … refused: after ceasing to pay, he could no longer expect that his wife would meet all his requirements.
Do not rich people act in this way, choosing as their spouses people who are obviously much less well-off than they are? Do they not “buy” their happiness, considering themselves entitled to dictate the conditions and rules on which such a marriage will be based?
