Think all you want you’re failing to make the connection.
Yours saying money doesn’t buy long term happiness. Yet a good portion of middle class especially the upper middle class has good money, good savings and a nest egg retirement.
You know what retirement money is? It’s the definition of long term happiness.
You instead of debating that point are bringing up a statistic on a rags to richess story and using that tiny anomaly as your logic back up. This is the same thing you do in every argument - huge logic leap with no facts to back you up or huge generalizations coming from very limited events.