Comments on: What makes you happy?

By: Carol Mathe

Carol Mathe — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:39:06 +0000

Too many people are missing the point. Hapiness is not about how much money you have. Its about how much you value the money that you have.

By: Mbali Mahlaba

Mbali Mahlaba — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:32:59 +0000

I disagree with what has been said about more utility being derived as we consume more goods. Utility is not necessarily based on the number of goods that one obtains. Utility depends on the satisfaction that one gets from deriving a specific item. This is why the law of diminishing marginal utility exists. This theory states that as a consumer increases the consumption of a good or service, the marginal utility obtained from each additional unit of the good or service decreases.

By: Omphile Morwalle (u14145571)

Omphile Morwalle (u14145571) — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:22:49 +0000

I also believe that being appreciative of what you have is an irreplaceable and priceless quality which every person should strive for. I, however, disagree that we appreciate less, the more we gain.

Money is not eveything, but everything that’s important needs money. For the majority, we all have dreams we would like to achieve some day, but our financial means restrict us from chasing our dreams; we shrink our dreams to fit the size of our income and that is why many people would rather be content in settling for what they have. They have no choice but to apprecieate what they have.

In the end, we all want more whether you’re well off or not. For those who are well off, a simple sense of personal fulfilment is what would scratch their backs because money was never a problem. For those who are not so fortunate, that sense of personal fulfilment would be embodied in an increase in wealth, regardless of how that would be acquired.