Well, this is a very complicated subject so bear with me while I go on a rant.

Money, of course, is what fuels progress in our world. Nothing is done on the basis of work ethic or finding one's place in the world. People grow up, go through school, pay for college and hunt endlessly for career paths all for the purpose of enlarging their financial wealth. And to what extent? For what purpose? Does the simple existence of money, images printed on special paper, bring happiness and a sense of self along with it? Does monetary compensation for one's time really make their efforts valuable, or is it a psychological framework built around the very existence of money itself? In short, does money truly make one happy?

It could be argued that yes, in fact, money does make a human being happy because of the benefits that it entails. Fine clothing, a nice new car, all the knicknacks and thingamabobs that people spend their hard earned money on every day. But do those things bring true happiness either? Or are they simply a distraction from the inherent un-happiness that a person's life is mired by? Does the acquisition of money truly appease the soul, or does it simply draw the souls focus away from the boredom and pain naturally found in the everyday process of the earning of said finances?

Another question that could be raised is whether or not there's a distinction between those two situations at all! Is distraction of the soul the same as true happiness? Are the two terms, the two ideas synonymous with one another. Are those two ideas interchangeable? Is there truly a distinction? I leave this up to you to decide...

How do you like that for a one-word answer?