It can buy nice cars. Pay your bills. You can give it to people and receive things, like food. You can buy a boat. You can go do things. You can buy a house. Or two. Or four.
How could you not be happy?
Because happiness is fleeting and anything you buy will quickly become "normal," and you'll feel exactly the same as you did before.
I mean, being worry free is a good feeling to me. I grew up with nothing, but I'm in a good place now.
I suppose it's subjective, as is happiness. /shrug. whatever floats your goat, I guess.
Thing is being worry free isn't the same as happiness. Negative emotions aren't the opposite of positive ones; you can have both at the same time, and lacking one doesn't mean you'll have the other.
More realistically, if you come upon some money and can pay your bills or whatever, you'll feel less worried, and you'll briefly feel happier, but that happiness doesn't last. You'll just return to neutral, free of worry sure, but not happy.
But I am happy. >__> I didn't come upon it, I worked for it. Going out and doing/buying things makes me happy. It's not brief. I'm like always happy and worry free because I don't have the crap weighing down on me like when I didn't have money.
I'm not saying you need money to be happy. I'm just happy with my money and the things it can do for me. Again, it's subjective. We're not all made happy by the same things, but money makes me happy!