work = purposeful energy with a direction (TEDx talk)

[Tom]

Yeah, I wasn't trying to say that money makes me happy. I'm just happier 

Total fluke about this job too. It's like my ideal job (for the most part, I'm not a huge fan of ObjC or Java, but what can you do), and it came at just the right time.

[Lazybones]

Money doesn't make you happy, but not worrying about your basic needs does.

[Darren Dirt]

Money doesn't make you happy, but not worrying about your basic needs does.

huge jump in happiness as people move out of poverty into the world of survive-ability.