Anything from a toy to a business to a painting could contribute to happiness. Of course, these are just wisecrack retorts to wisecrack slurs, but they point to a deeper truth. In a sense money is everything, every value. For a start, it is a means to everything which is for sale-other forms of wealth. When you think about how much of your time is spent earning the wealth you need, a new perspective on money opens up.
Money can buy time off work.
So you can use that time off work for anything you can do, you can devote it to any value whatever. So we conclude, astonishingly to conventional wisdom, that money is everything, money can buy happiness, money can buy love, love of money is the root of whatever you regard as good. Wealth releases your abilities from other uses, and lets you direct them to whatever value pleases you. Wealth is as versatile a value as your own abilities. What you cannot do yourself, you can pay others to do.