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VideoboysaysCube posted...

That's something I'm surprised so many people don't understand. When I was young, I thought money meant happiness, but now that I'm older, I realize that once your basic needs are met, extra money does nothing. I have a healthy amount of money accumulated and it just sits in the bank. I don't know what to do with it. I wish I could go to the store and buy a 'happiness' potion, but it doesn't work that way. The reality is that I wish I had someone special to share it with, but I don't. So ironically, the more money I accumulate, the more depressed I become.

Do you vacation? Engage in hobbies? Travel?

All that extra money affords you the ability and opportunity to do stuff with it. Merely having it doesn't make you happy, sure, however it affords you the opportunity to use it for adventures/items/passions that could make you happy which impoverished people don't have the luxury of as their time is spent trying to survive.

If it's just sitting in the bank and you're just sitting at home doing nothing, then sure it's not doing anything for you because you're not doing anything with it.