Oh absolutely.
And yet these kinds of people keep saying money won’t buy happiness when it’s literally proven that happiness does go up as you get financial freedom before topping off at an income that meets your immediate financial needs. Then you stop getting more happy.
But I think they will never be happy because what they want isn’t tied to financial means. Look at Tim Poole and his need to be cool to skateboarders or all the Fox news hosts that worked in theater or tried to be journalists elsewhere like Tucker Carlson. Heck even Trump loves musical Theater and just wants his dead dad’s love he can’t get.
Unhappy but somehow it’s the governments fault because the replacement job and money didn’t fix them.