Whoever said "money doesn't buy happiness" was definitely wrong Money does happiness all the time 
. Just think of what you can do with more money in audio/video.
Alas, there are areas where more money doesn't necessarily buy more happiness. Great example is boats. The cost goes up by a factor of 2 for every 3 to 6 feet of length. As the size goes up, so goes the aggravations. Not being built like cars with high quality standards, as the systems increase in larger boats, so does the maintenance hassles. Sure, you can give it to someone else to do: the first "oil change" service for my old 32 foot powercat cost a cool $3,500! My 23 foot boat now has two-stroke hightech engine which doesn't even need an oil change!
Then it is the handling of the thing. My smaller boat can push itself into any spot. The larger boat needed lots of space to get around. I can see all around my smaller boat. No so with the larger where I could see the four corners and could be bumping into things.
Keep going up in size above 50 foot and problems escalate. One of the execs above me at Microsoft with net worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars has a huge boat and was telling a story of how the transmission broke in the middle of the sea near Alaska. It took 3 weeks to get the part from Germany! He had to fly home back to work, and then up again for the repairs.
I used to have our larger boat at one of the top marinas here. I would go on popular long weekends like forth of July and see two-thirds of the boats still tied up to the dock! One look at the way the line was tied and you could just tell the person thought if they spent $1M on the boat, the thing would ride itself like a Lexus. NOT! If you don't know how to tie a line properly, it surely means you have not taken any classes to learn to drive the thing and the horror or running into others means you are stuck at the dock.
It is a shame really. Boating can be a lot of fun. But more money seems to come with a lot of grief. As they say, the happiest days of a boater are the day he buys a boat and the day he sells it!
So do you know of other areas where more money doesn't purely increase level of happiness?
. Just think of what you can do with more money in audio/video.Alas, there are areas where more money doesn't necessarily buy more happiness. Great example is boats. The cost goes up by a factor of 2 for every 3 to 6 feet of length. As the size goes up, so goes the aggravations. Not being built like cars with high quality standards, as the systems increase in larger boats, so does the maintenance hassles. Sure, you can give it to someone else to do: the first "oil change" service for my old 32 foot powercat cost a cool $3,500! My 23 foot boat now has two-stroke hightech engine which doesn't even need an oil change!
Then it is the handling of the thing. My smaller boat can push itself into any spot. The larger boat needed lots of space to get around. I can see all around my smaller boat. No so with the larger where I could see the four corners and could be bumping into things.
Keep going up in size above 50 foot and problems escalate. One of the execs above me at Microsoft with net worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars has a huge boat and was telling a story of how the transmission broke in the middle of the sea near Alaska. It took 3 weeks to get the part from Germany! He had to fly home back to work, and then up again for the repairs.
I used to have our larger boat at one of the top marinas here. I would go on popular long weekends like forth of July and see two-thirds of the boats still tied up to the dock! One look at the way the line was tied and you could just tell the person thought if they spent $1M on the boat, the thing would ride itself like a Lexus. NOT! If you don't know how to tie a line properly, it surely means you have not taken any classes to learn to drive the thing and the horror or running into others means you are stuck at the dock.
It is a shame really. Boating can be a lot of fun. But more money seems to come with a lot of grief. As they say, the happiest days of a boater are the day he buys a boat and the day he sells it!
So do you know of other areas where more money doesn't purely increase level of happiness?
