Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Sure it will!

Toys and food and stuff.

I mean, a dog isn't going to be very happy if you don't feed it.

There are some problems having lots of money can solve, and there are others it can't (or makes worse).

And this quote reminds me of the most recent episode of MadMen, and how sad the last scene with the dog made me.

@Corey (and probably many others): Oh please, you know what bizzy is trying to say, so stop distorting it. Money can buy you all kinds of comfort and toys, but those toys won't directly make you *happy*. Too many people forget that, and a lot of them just never learn to begin with.

I can't count how many people I know get $100K+ degrees, all on loans, to work a $30k job in an area with an obscene cost of living. And when I point out how absurd that life plan is, that's always the excuse I hear.

"Money doesn't buy happiness!"

Yeah well, neither does poverty.

Besides, its more fun figuring out how to get the wag for free.

Look, the title quote for this thread implies that one could already have the financial means to acquire a good dog, DONE. No more of this "you can't be happy in poverty" shit. We know that already and nobody's claiming otherwise here unless I'm missing some lines to read between.

But also as our children's keepers, does it not fall on us to provide more for them than material comforts? Oh yeah, there is that weird "love" thing I've heard about, but a lot of parents don't bother with it any more, believing that spoiling their children will suffice for lack of quality time.

Oh dear, I seemed to have stubbed my analogy on another false reality. Wait, that was just the original point of the topic, silly me.