Do you think money brings happiness. Or do you think people and experiences do, or something between? Do you think people were more happier before technology was advanced, or not? If religion brings happiness is it fake happiness? Is it wrong morally to use drugs to achieve happiness?
Depends on the use of the money. Both money and experiences could. To many variables. Happiness is subjective, so there is no "fake" happiness. But even in the general context of the word, no, it isn't fake happiness if it's fulfilling. Once again, morals are subjective, but I would say that the way it affects those around you could be immoral. The act within itself though is not immoral.
Although richer countries are clearly happier, the correlation is not perfect, which suggests that other, presumably cultural, factors are at work. Western Europeans and North Americans bunch pretty closely together, though there are some anomalies, such as the surprisingly gloomy Portuguese. Asians tend to be somewhat less happy than their income would suggest, and Scandinavians a little more so. Hong Kong and Denmark, for instance, have similar income per person, at purchasing-power parity; but Hong Kong’s average life satisfaction is 5.5 on a 10-point scale, and Denmark’s is 8. Latin Americans are cheerful, the ex-Soviet Union spectacularly miserable, and the saddest place in the world, relative to its income per person, is Bulgaria.
I find that happiness has nothing to do with possessions but with who people associate with and what they do. Having visited multiple third world countries I have found that the children are generally happier than other children in Australia.
That depends on how the money is used. That does too. No, I'm much happier spending my day pretending to learn in class than working a farm. No, and what exactly is "fake" happiness? No, it's just stupid to do it too much or too often.
The former soviet union countries have the highest suicide rates in the world, and a huge growing number of drug users. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_happiness (there)
Of course, all of these could change with an economic despression and then all of a sudden, Boom! China is higher than the United States. I'm not saying China would rise in the graph, but the United States might move...
You do know that like a billion Chinese still live in sub-African poverty right? but i think the united states would be a little bit lower, so would the rest of Europe (the happiest country would be of course Libya )
