英语辩论：rich people are happier than other poeple

英语辩论：rich people are happier than other poeple
英语辩论要用的.正反方的都要,有中文解释下更好.

Money in no way buys happiness. Just look at the lives of people starring in the movies, the Hollywood crowd, the rich athletes. They have more problems, commit suicide, get married sixteen times and so on, and there is no way they could actually be happy living like that. The benefit of the nicer things in life wears off REAL fast after you have it and I have no doubt they constantly struggle with the buyers remorse plague, looking for a mansion to make them happy, which of course it will not.
Studies have shown that happiness level increases in proportion to income only until a person is comfortable (bills paid, not working 100 hrs a week just to pay for food, etc). After that, income increases don't cause much increase in happiness.
Studies also show that if you are slightly better off than your peers--friends, neighbors, graduating class--then you're much more likely to be happy and satisfied with your wealth/income. If you have the crappiest house in Beverly Hills you might be unhappy, but if you have the nicest trailer in your town in Mississippi, then you'll feel accomplished and confident.
I also think that a person's expectations of wealth (versus the wealth/income they actually end up with) go a long way toward making you happy. If you grew up poor and never thought you'd amount to anything, you'll be really happy with a steady job and nice house. If you grow up expecting to take over your dad's $10,000,000 business and you don't--well you'll be pretty unhappy, even if you are very affluent.
Well.just from my limited experience with being poor and seeing rich folks from the outside, I'd have to say, not always. Money by itself isn't *sufficient* to buy happiness, as you yourself figured out. ^_^
But. There are "hygiene" factors to consider. Things people, everyone, needs, and if they aren't taken care of life gets nasty, and unpleasant quickly. Simple stuff, like Do I have a Roof Over My Head? or Do I have Food on the Table? or If I Break My Arm, can I get it Taken Care Of?
Money, for almost everyone, makes these hygiene factors *go away*. Having food on the table isn't even an issue when you are rich. Neither is being homeless and begging on the streets. So it does *decrease the odds* that you will end up miserable in life, or that if you should end up miserable (say, courtesy of a treatable mental illness) that you *will* be able to afford proper and *effective* health care to get yourself well. Not just "stable", but *Better*, big difference there.
And.I'd also submit that it is only common sense that having the Big Wad-o-Cash (tm) also *increases your odds* that you will be free to do what you want with your time. You will be able to afford to do more, and you will have the option of *making time* to do it (versus having to do another double shift to get paid).
So yeah.money isn't *sufficient* or enough by itself, to buy happiness, but.at a minimum level some money is *necessary* to avoid misery and to *allow* yourself an opportunity to do things that make you happy.
Not that you need to be a billionaire to do this. Nobody *needs* to be a billionaire. If you get a decent amount of pay for your work and you are content and *able* to keep up what you are doing to stay happy.then you have enough for you, maybe even your kids. ^_^
I hope this helps, and thanks for your time! ^_^ Take care...