Are rich, powerful people always happy?

I think it's the process of being rich that can make people happy, not being rich itself. For example, maybe you have $10,000 deposit now, five years later you increase your deposit to $100,000 through your hard work. Another guy has $1,000,000 now, but his business failed so he lose half of his money. Though he still have $500,000, five times more than your $100,000. But who is happier? Of course the guy feels failed and frustrated while you feel happy and successful. I think rich, powerful guys can't always realize their rich and powerful, and they can be suffered by only a slight decrease of their rich & powerful. So they can't be happy all the time. Anyway, in my opinion, your money has little relation to your happiness unless it isn't sufficient to support your life.

Materially, they are but because they already have all the material things in life, they usually feel the need to work on something that will make them feel happier like giving money and stuff to charity, thinking of what they could do to feel appreciated, try to make the world a better place to live in. Anybody who is rich and not do any of this is not a happy person at all and is just plain selfish and materialistic.

It is not that she was rich that she was unhappy or because she was powerful. It was that she could not just marry anybody. She had to marry someone who had royal blood and most of them were related to each other. Also at the time, she was young and even poor young people are unhappy at their parents's decisions for their lives. Ï think it had something to do with her age at the time. She had not had enough experience. I believe that we should be content at wherever God puts us, whether we are rich, poor, middle class, working middle class, upper middle class or whatever. It does not mean that if one is born in a working class family, one should not study harder to go to university because horrors! one might wind up rich and unhappy. So the rich should not envy the poor their carefree life, or the poor should not envy the rich, their wealth. And the same applies in feeling that the rich are always unhappy because their lives are controlled or that the poor are always unhappy because they do not have enough to eat.

yeah i agree that riches and powerful are not always happy. riches may face a lot of problem. there are no guarantee that their money will stay with them all time. if an earth quake occur .even if they have millions or billions it will all go in one minute or even in one second. and the riches are not always happy. even their life is not safe. theives may take their life to steal them . and they will have many mental problems by owning great amount of money. may God bless us all!!

I can answered for this with a single sentense "everybody in this world have problems, if a man has no problem then he is become mad"....

Not always. Some rich people are happy, and some aren't. I feel like the money isn't what causes them to happy or not. I could be rich, but if I didn't have any loved ones, what would be the point? I'd be unhappy because I was alone. Or if loved ones were dying, I'd be unhappy, even if I had a lot of money, because money can't keep you from dying all the time. Sometimes, the phrase, "More money, more problems" is true. I guess it just depends on that person and how they choose to live.

Being happy doesn't determine and guarantee 100% happiness. That's my take on this.. there are options to do this and that, buy this and that, but it doesn't guarantee a lifelong happiness. It just gives certain privileges, however happiness has to be felt from inside. Perhaps that is why sometimes the rich are not happy and look for other things beside money to make them happy. This is my thought, others might differ.. good topic though.

You are absolutely right. If we have lots of money and have no happiness then that living is useless living. It is not worth. Happiness is all that human beings need. Money is just a part of life. We need money to buy things. But money can't buy happiness. Money can get you material things, but no happiness. Money is important but what is more important than money is satisfaction of your soul. Which will come only with happiness. If you have lost your soul in getting money then that money is useless for you and can do you no good. So stick to your principles. Do good to others. Don't have a commercial intention behind everything that you do. Don't sell your self respect for money. Be honest and be assertive but not submissive.

I feel that we shouldn't generalize in saying that the rich and powerful can never be truly happy. Some of them actually are. they enjoy the benefits of their power and money, but at the same time they generously share of their wealth, i think that is the key. It all depends on what we want out of life, and our happiness does not depend on what we have or don't have.

Well according to me , its not always that rich people are happy and poor ones are sad. Every in this world has his share of happiness and sorrows. Money may satisfy the material needs of one but happiness is much more than that. rich people also have their own worries and sorrows. So judging someones happiness on the basis of his bank balance is just awkward. It takes more than that!!!

They could be happy because of luxarious item thay have purchase. They might feel quite rich in the company of hi-fi friends and big clubs and hotels. However, if they have not gicven or are not giving to their family members particularly wife and children, they are poorest of the poor as they don't know what their children are doing in his absence. No, in that case, they are not rich.

emotion is like a weather..(it change) there is no exemption on that whether your rich or poor. being rich/powerful doesn't guaranteed that they are excuse to experience to be sad,to get hurt... we all can't be happy always.

I know people who are with all the money and power they have but they are living the average life. What i meant by average is that there are ups and downs. There are too many bases in our lives that make us happy or unhappy and money is just one of them. We should look into the other aspects, like our family, not just our own but the people related to us. Another example is our friends, we do not control them despite the money and power we have. One quote i learned from though, tells me that, "Happiness is a choice" and i totally agree with it. Even if you are living a hard life, if you think positive or something like that, you wouldn't be unhappy. It was your choice to be happy.

People,rich or poor, can be happy or unhappy depending on their choices in life. Many rich people are unhappy because they focused more on material things. Some of them choose to be unhappy just to have a lot of money. For me, one can be happy if only she/he doesn't have anything that can be ruin her/his life. One should live his/her life kindly and positively.

As the saying goes, you can never have it all, you are always left to a single choice, to be contented in what you have. In the case of the rich and powerful, they may have the money, fame and resources, but some of them may be sick, alone, has problems with his family, the usual drama that makes life less perfect. To those who does not have money and power, they do get a share of happy moments and drama in their lives too.So basically I cannot completely agree or disagree with you. Life is a matter of choice.Whether you are poor or rich, powerful or not, the choice of being happy and contented with your life depends on you.

Yes, agreed. But even if there was no one to control them, there's still a chance they wouldn't be happy. Happiness is kind of elusive. Material objects can make someone more comfortable or bring temporary pleasure, but buying things doesn't really make someone happy. Freedom doesn't always make people happy either. I haven't seen "The Young Victoria" but it looked pretty good. I might watch it just because the costumes look so pretty.

Rich and powerful doesn't always mean happy. Wealthy people can have the same joys, sorrows and problems in their lives as poor people can. No amount of money or power can guarantee any amount of happiness in life. The rich and power are just people too. Everyone deserves to be happy. It is just assumed that people with money and power get everything they want. The truth could surprise you.

For me to became rich it is not mean that your happy as what i have experience they less happy than the poor one.

It's a good feeling that you are well-off of course, but not being rich, famous has its toll. I'd rather have just enough money for a living rather than rich and being controlled. It is very disappointing that you always have to follow the rule and cannot express yourself or practice your freedom...I totally agree. That is not life at all...it's like a robot already. Your moves are dictated and controlled.