Money can't buy happiness.

It's not money exactly that defines our lives. It's how we are brought up to perceive our state of being. A substinence farming family in China earns $80 per year. They have no money, never will, but they can still be happy by having a family and community. On the other hand, a very wealthy German man recently committed suicide because the current economic crisis made him lose a lot of assets. To most people his decision does not make sense because he STILL had countless millions. In between these two extremes, lottery winners have on more than a few occasions testified in public that they wished they had never gotten that money, because it caused their lives to degenerate, (they started doing drugs, reckless spending, etc., turning their lives upside down.)

So it's not really money, it's what you're used to having. Money is an issue for everyone, yeah, but being tied to what you know may be more of an issue.