Does Having Money Make Some Decisions Easier?

[Primark]

95% of things in this world is done with money, when you are rich you will be so confident when making decisions, money gives you more strength, confidence and relaxation when making decisions.

Especially if someone has savings to cover emergency expenses in advance, then he clearly has many more options when changing jobs, seeking medical treatment, investing in a business, or dealing with a sudden problem. In fact, there is no definite answer to what percentage of work in the real world is actually done with money. You are talking your mind, but I cannot call your words completely unreasonable. Because in today's world, most of the work is done with money. Even the reality is that lack of money not only reduces our purchasing power, but also reduces our mental ability to plan for the future and make difficult decisions.

[Halifat]

95% of things in this world is done with money, when you are rich you will be so confident when making decisions, money gives you more strength, confidence and relaxation when making decisions.

Especially if someone has savings to cover emergency expenses in advance, then he clearly has many more options when changing jobs, seeking medical treatment, investing in a business, or dealing with a sudden problem. In fact, there is no definite answer to what percentage of work in the real world is actually done with money. You are talking your mind, but I cannot call your words completely unreasonable. Because in today's world, most of the work is done with money. Even the reality is that lack of money not only reduces our purchasing power, but also reduces our mental ability to plan for the future and make difficult decisions.

I will say before I was born there are some decisions which have been taken without the involvement of money, but since I come to this world there is no anything that we can do today which money is not important, there are a lot of people which you think they don't have ambition just because of how they are behaving, what is stopping them to make decision is nothing but money, when money is there it will make a lot of things faster not even in making decision. Money actually make a lot of decision easier, it makes things easier in any circumstances.

[liasbaa]

Money can buy temporal happiness, what do I mean if I meet someone who is depressed and I offer the person some money I am convinced the person will lighten up. It might solve all the problem he or she has but it will go a long way to reduce the stress and load. Most times we don't need enough money to solve life problems in most cases consistent earnings and good planning can help use leave a good life without having so much issues bugging and disturbing our peaceful existence.

Money is not able to solve everything and even the main reason someone is depressed, but money can actually help in some ways like supporting what’s on ground and reduce some of the pressure that is making things worse and if you are is struggling with maybe one kind of problem financially receiving money at that moment can bring one kind of immediate relief and peace of mind and that is why i always pray for steady income and proper planning so live can at least easy for me and my family because sometimes steady income is actually important than simply having a huge amount of money and then going broke later on.

It is true that money cannot solve all problems. You have given more importance to having a stable income. I agree with you that having a stable income is more important than having a lot of money. A lot of money can temporarily keep you in peace and can meet your daily needs but stability is the most important thing to be mentally successful.
You have said about proper planning, this is also very important to be successful in investing. If you know the right use of money, you can easily become rich. There will be less chance of taking unnecessary risks. Many people lose money despite having a lot of money due to wrong planning and even though the fund is small, they make a lot of profit due to logical decisions in fund management.

[Ummeettaa]

I started thinking about this  after noticing something that does not get discussed much when people talk about money. Sometimes having little money can actually make certain things more expensive. For example someone with enough funds can buy something in bulk when the price is better and someone who is low in funds may have to keep buying smaller quantities at a higher cost.
Someone with savings can take there time looking for a better job while someone who needs money immediately may have to accept the first opportunity available even if the pay is poor or the conditions are bad. Even with emergency having some money available can allow you to fix a small problem before it becomes a bigger and expensive one.
So maybe money does not only buy things, maybe money only buys flexibility and that flexibility can sometimes allow someone to make easier decisions.

On my end, am also in full support and agreeing that wealthy people do finds it more easy to make some decisions than the poor, especially when it comes to investments or when it concerns health.

Wealthy people when unhealthy can easily decide to get preferential treated in a very comfortable environment, or with expensive facilities and also have the opportunity to be attended and treated by professionals and specialist no matter the cost. But the poor will find it very hard to make decision of such no matter how unwell they are, all because they can't afford it.

Also when it comes to investments aspect, the rich always have more opportunities of making more money than the poor, because they do make the decisions and have the opportunity of investing bigger than the poor.

The rich are also very likely to take more risk and handles loss than the poor, I also have the believe that the more one invest, the more profit they get. So with no doubts, I think the rich are likely to always easily make decisions than the poor.

This is where I find the idea interesting. We often tell people to make better financial decisions but how much of that decision making actually depends on having financial freedom in the first place?

I also do honour financial freedom alot and can choose freedom than wealth sometimes no matter how much I earn, I can never decide to prioritise wealth than my freedom  because what is wealth without freedom.

I know of someone that quite a well and stable financial paying job for freedom, he was a Bank manager of a very big Branch with fat salary but quite his job to have the freedom to take care of his family.

Freedom is one of the things much wealthy people lack because of the responsibilities surrounding being wealthy.

[sunsilk]

Having money makes it easier for us to manage things, and when it comes to shopping, we can afford things like household necessities and so on, because we buy in large quantities. If we only have a small amount of money, there's the potential for prices to be higher than those of people with more money.

That is the advantage of having money, you get to have a lot of options whether to purchase things or not. You won't be problematic with the bills that you're obligated with to pay monthly or any period that is set for you to pay it.

It gives freedom for those who's got it and they can do things that they are passionate about or just do nothing at all and be with their family at most times.

However, not everyone who was previously poor will remain poor. The most important thing is an intelligent mindset. Having an intelligent mindset can potentially make someone rich, even if they weren't rich before. So, in my opinion, the best thing is to have a good mindset and have a lot of money.

There are people who promised themselves not to remain poor and will work hard for it.

But there are people who do have enough in life and doesn't want to move further and are content with it.

[Cityhunter34]

I will say before I was born there are some decisions which have been taken without the involvement of money, but since I come to this world there is no anything that we can do today which money is not important, there are a lot of people which you think they don't have ambition just because of how they are behaving, what is stopping them to make decision is nothing but money, when money is there it will make a lot of things faster not even in making decision. Money actually make a lot of decision easier, it makes things easier in any circumstances.

Money is actually something that can make you feel happy even when you don't want to, because no matter what stress you go through, immediately you remember what is in your account, you just let go of everything. But when you don't have any money in your account, you start thinking about many things, essentially when you have a family that you are taking care of, you must definitely feel bad because you know what is waiting for you.

So money makes things easier for us at all times, because when you have enough of it, you can easily make decisions whenever you like without depending on someone else.

[kawetsriyanto]

Having money makes it easier for us to manage things, and when it comes to shopping, we can afford things like household necessities and so on, because we buy in large quantities. If we only have a small amount of money, there's the potential for prices to be higher than those of people with more money.

Sure, we can easily buy household necessities if we have a lot of money. It is true, sometimes there will be discounts if we buy large number of stuff. There will be no discounts for the small quantities. For the people who have limited money, they won't think about the discounts. They even think twice to buy any stuff because there are many other things to get more priority.

However, not everyone who was previously poor will remain poor. The most important thing is an intelligent mindset. Having an intelligent mindset can potentially make someone rich, even if they weren't rich before. So, in my opinion, the best thing is to have a good mindset and have a lot of money.

Of course, someone's life can change. Even someone is born in a poor family, he is possible to be a rich one in the future. Besides the intelligent mindset, someone also needs to strong mentality to keep doing hard efforts. Even having intelligent mindset, someone can't be rich if he has weak mentality. So, we must also take attention in this aspect as well.

[SPIDERMAN008]

Money really does make all life decisions easier. I have a rich friend, and he doesn't worry about anything at all. Many people spend their entire lives trying to pay off a mortgage and raise children working two jobs, but for him, these aren't problems. Yes, he has other difficulties, like how to preserve his wealth or how to buy his wife a new car, but for him, these are easy problems. It's a privilege to make choices, not problems that could leave his family hungry for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately, money is the number one resource today. It has always been and always will be.

People needs will never be finished . The wealthier they become, the more their needs will increase, new goals will be created that would not have come to mind if they had less money. Those who have more money are concerned about how to increase that amount, how to buy a good apartment for their family, how to make their business bigger. But those who have less money who have small job and fulfill their family responsibilities, have a desire and goal to somehow fulfill the important needs of their family. And if they have money, several options are created. may be it to buy something for their family or to decide whether to invest in a business.

Naturally the difficulties that exist may not be solved with money, but any kind of problem that can be solved in life to live well, which can be solved within their own control or by controlling others, can be solved with money. Therefore we should aim to be financially prosperous in the future. Because without money, we cannot live well, we cannot fulfill the needs of our family, and we cannot present ourselves as important in society and among our relatives.

[Etranger]

Money can buy temporal happiness, what do I mean if I meet someone who is depressed and I offer the person some money I am convinced the person will lighten up. It might not solve all the problem he or she has but it will go a long way to reduce the stress and load. Most times we don't need enough money to solve life problems in most cases consistent earnings and good planning can help use leave a good life without having so much issues bugging and disturbing our peaceful existence.

In my view, it is precisely proper planning and regular cash inflows that help. Because this is the foundation of stability and the ability to build a long planning horizon. When a person has no money, it is terrible, but when they do not know when they will have it, today they have it, tomorrow they don't, this is even worse, in my view. It is precisely this lack of confidence and stability that undermines health the most and imposes enormous stress. When inflows are regular, even if small, but you know that they will strictly be there once a month or once every two weeks, this already forms a foundation from which you can push off for higher financial leaps.

[Dicee]

Yes having money can make some decision easier. Ok lets say In the aspect of buying quality stuffs like gadgets when one has enough money its gives you the privilege to aquire  a quality and durable gadget while one with less finance tend to go for a cheaper one, which may not be durable whereby prompting the person to rebuy it again and in other hand  if  the one with less finance wants to save up for a better and quality gadget maybe before he or she could gather the money the price of that particular gadget might have increased.
So in as much as thier is money some decisions are made easier.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Having money always makes life easier; it brings us closer to happiness, I'd say 95% of the time, because now everything revolves around it. In fact, even going to the bathroom requires money, since everything has a cost: water, toilet paper... even the most basic necessities require it. Going out is difficult if you go out with empty pockets.

As for opportunities, you should take the ones that seem most favorable. Obviously, if you do a job and get paid more, that's the best, but I believe that the best jobs require a much higher level of skill than what just anyone without an education could do.

[vs2014]

Sometimes having extra money can blessing for people which enables extra choices in life. It can help people to grab opportunities as well as save people during financial emergencies without taking any loans. People with little money cannot do such things and they have to accept low paying job for money or need more time to handle small financial problems. Although money itself doesn't solve everything but its true that a little amount of money can help a lot when a person fall into trouble and so it's important to focus on saving money

[Agathamay]

Money does a lot of things and also makes life generally easier for us and the moment you have money to afford the life we desire, you'll definitely start seeing life in a totally different perspective.
Money also answers almost everything and with more, one can easily make more money and get more opportunities and there's this saying I always tell people, which is that, even if you don't know why you need the money, please just have the money first, the need for it will
Come afterwards.

[Etranger]

Money does a lot of things and also makes life generally easier for us and the moment you have money to afford the life we desire, you'll definitely start seeing life in a totally different perspective.
Money also answers almost everything and with more, one can easily make more money and get more opportunities and there's this saying I always tell people, which is that, even if you don't know why you need the money, please just have the money first, the need for it will
Come afterwards.

I do not know people who do not understand why they need money. Such an understanding may not yet have formed in very young people, who think that money can only be used for entertainment. But for an adult, money covers many issues that concern them on a daily basis. And if you have money, then you simply have far fewer worries. Clearly, it cannot protect you from everything, but it can certainly free up your time, energy, and nerves for more important things. And then you focus on more spiritual, non-utilitarian phenomena, which makes your life much more fulfilling than that of someone who is fighting for every dollar.

[Localhostspeed]

Yes having money can make some decision easier. Ok lets say In the aspect of buying quality stuffs like gadgets when one has enough money its gives you the privilege to aquire  a quality and durable gadget while one with less finance tend to go for a cheaper one, which may not be durable whereby prompting the person to rebuy it again and in other hand  if  the one with less finance wants to save up for a better and quality gadget maybe before he or she could gather the money the price of that particular gadget might have increased.
So in as much as thier is money some decisions are made easier.

This is real. If they are selling some items and quality ones are make available to be choose, someone with money will not bothered to choose the quality one but a person that does not have money will be looking for the one that is cheap. Only money can make you ignore something that is very quality over something that is less quality. Sometimes, money makes your decisions easy and not stressful else why should I ignore a quality item over the one that is not quality.

Having money has save life's instead of making decisions that are very dangerous to health. I have seen a man brought his kid to a hospital and because of the bills of treatment from the hospital, he asked the hospital to discharged him and let him go home and do local medication. I know is because of the bill was too high that is why he chose home medication when he can do it right in the hospital. Money stop all these stress.

[WatChe]

Having money always makes life easier; it brings us closer to happiness, I'd say 95% of the time, because now everything revolves around it. In fact, even going to the bathroom requires money, since everything has a cost: water, toilet paper... even the most basic necessities require it. Going out is difficult if you go out with empty pockets.

As for opportunities, you should take the ones that seem most favorable. Obviously, if you do a job and get paid more, that's the best, but I believe that the best jobs require a much higher level of skill than what just anyone without an education could do.

Money is indeed solution to our majority of problems as it makes our life easier and better. Life is really hard if you don't have money with you.  Having money in pocket opens many doors and opportunities for us. With adequate money you can think of investments, taking risks (like investing in stocks or going for crypto trading) and enter in different ventures but if you have less money you can't think of taking risks because if you fail then you will be in trouble. With money you can decide confidently about many things in life that may be about purchasing, investment or personal decisions.

[Rabata]

Having some savings in hand not only provides financial security, but also gives people time to make the right decisions. For example, if someone's job environment is bad, if they have savings to last for a few days, they are not forced to rush into another bad job. Similarly, if there is a sudden medical, home repair or emergency expense, having money in hand can help with small problems. But those of us who do not have savings often have to borrow, and if they borrow, they will definitely have a bigger pressure with interest later.
The same thing can be seen in shopping, those who have more money can buy many things at a lower price if they buy them all at once, while those who have less money have to buy them little by little repeatedly and spend more in total. Therefore, the problem of poverty is not only low income, but often having no alternative is also a big problem. Therefore, in addition to talking about good financial decisions, it is equally important for people to have some savings in hand to use in times of emergency.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Money is indeed solution to our majority of problems as it makes our life easier and better. Life is really hard if you don't have money with you.  Having money in pocket opens many doors and opportunities for us. With adequate money you can think of investments, taking risks (like investing in stocks or going for crypto trading) and enter in different ventures but if you have less money you can't think of taking risks because if you fail then you will be in trouble. With money you can decide confidently about many things in life that may be about purchasing, investment or personal decisions.

That's right. From personal experience, sometimes not having enough money causes you to miss out on many opportunities, even education. The best courses require a good amount of money, even professional certifications or medical training. The lack of money for family medicine also has a huge impact.

I think that when money is tight, the drive to get the best things increases, while there are people who have money and don't value it. For us, even to level up professionally, we need money to raise our value in the market because training programs cost money. Not only in this area, but in almost every aspect of life, money is what gives us the most freedom, at least so far.

[Emjay24]

This is where I find the idea interesting. We often tell people to make better financial decisions but how much of that decision making actually depends on having financial freedom in the first place?
Does having money give people an advantage beyond the money itself because they have more options available for them?
And if that is true, could one of the hidden cost of being poor be that you have fewer opportunities to choose the easier option?

I’m curious how other see this. Is financial flexibility itself a form of wealth?

If you have financial freedom, you can make decisions without much hassle and people would respect it because you can finance such decisions. Poor people also know good decisions to make, but they avoid making them because they cannot finance those decisions which makes them appear like they don't make good decisions.

A poor person have little connections and cannot access a lot of insider information to have proper advantage, so they are very limited. No matter your wisdom and ability, if you don't back it up with corresponding financial success, you'll always be underrated.

[DPHOR]

Majority of human problems if been talked about, the solution is money.
When an individual has money, it becomes easier to make decisions because there’s something to fall back on to help push what they want. Where as there’s no money, some decisions becomes difficult to make, because there’s actually nothing to help fund or secure the solution to that particular issue as at when it arises.

Technically in the larger society where crime is on the high side and people keep seeking for justice when wronged, the highest bidder sometimes wins, because the money is there to sponsor what they want the general public to believe and also bribe their way through - which is equally a decision since money is involved. Those who seeks justice and has no money will reluctantly accept whatever they are been offered in most cases, just so there’s something achievable.

Money makes our life easier and helps contribute to our financial freedom in a system where inflation is usually the talk of the day. Money make one to readily invest and pursue what they want without stressing much about it. Sometimes, money brings the right connection one needs with those in the upper class (wealthy).