Money can buy happiness 英语辩论赛 模板+内容

简介：如果在辩论赛中你支持这个观点，你只要仔细看了这篇文章，必能稳赢对方。这篇文章包含了一辩开篇陈词，攻辩问题，更罗列了对方最可能提出的一些尖锐的问题，以及如何用非常巧妙的方式回答这些刁钻的问题，化劣势为优势。知己知彼，你绝对百战百胜。

布局：1，开篇陈词（非常能带动气氛，有助于评委加分哦）

2，攻辩问题（非常犀利哦）

3，对方问题以及回答（非常有实用性）

4，总结陈词(不是普通的总结陈词哦，看了就知道)

1，开篇陈词(该陈词引用了马克思的话“经济基础决定上层建筑”来有力诠释我方观点，且在末尾运用了3个排比的句式提出疑问，能跟观众很好的互动，让一辩在开篇陈词中显得很有气势，给评委留下很好的印象，且让对方辩友感到“杀气”)

Good morning。Horable

chairman,distinguished dear fellow

debaters,ladies and gentleman.our topic is “can money buy happiness” We firmly believe that money can buy

happiness. .i am going to address our arguments . Karl Marx defined that happiness is a state which make your psychological desire satisfied. What can make you satisfied? We all know that economic basis is the sufficient guarantee of satisfication.

Marx said that superstructure

['sju:p?,str?kt??] condition is up to the economy level. As the foregoing everlast theory

reveals, It is transparent that money can buy happiness.

There is a possibility that some people claim that money isn’t everything, but without money all of us can achieve nothing. When you are sick, but have no money to see a doctor, will you be happy ?when you are hungry ,but have no money to

buy delicious food ,will you be happy ?（可以等待观众回答后再继续问）when you are admitted to the university which you dream of , but have no money to go to school, will you be happy ? no ,you will feel depressed and desperate for life ,you will feel hopeless and the unfair of society. You will feel in the dark and cant see the light at the tunnel.So we do affirm that money can buy happiness.

攻辩问题：

1，when children go shopping with their parents ,they see a toy and they want it very much .at this condition,if their parents don’t buy it for them ,children will be very sad and cry ;but if their parents use their money to buy it for them ,children will be very happy and smile brightly,that is to say ,money can buy

happiness ,so ,how can you explain this phenomenon ?

翻译：当小孩子和父母出去诳街时，他们看到一个非常喜欢的玩具。如果他们的父母不给他们买，他们会变大哭并且不高兴；但是如果他们的父母给他们买了这个玩具，孩子们会非常快乐。也就是说钱买来了快乐，你们怎么解释呢这个“钱买来快乐”的实例呢？ 2，Marx said that superstructure condition is up to the economy level,do you agree?

如果对方辩友回答“yes”，就马上说“dear fellow debater,thank you for admitting and supporting our point.:”（谢谢我亲爱的的对方辩友支持我方观点）

如果对方辩友回答“n”,就说“this marx

point is accepted widely in the world and chairman mao has been

supporting this point ,you say don’t agree ,are you criticizing our great

leader mao is wrong ?(马克思的这个观点世界上被普遍认同，伟大领袖毛主席也支持这个观点，

你说你不同意，那么你是在批评我们位的的主席错了吗？)

对方辩友可能提出问题的反驳

1，如果对方辩友说：钱是万恶之源，所以钱不能带来快乐。怎样解释？

就这样回答，让对方哑口无言：you say money is the source of evil .as we all

know that our country is developing economy largely and publish many

policies to lead people to a way of more money ,according to your

logic ,do you mean that our leaders of the country are leading us to a way of evil ?（你说钱是万恶之源。大家都知道，我国现在大力发展经济，出台了许多政策引领人们走上致富之路。根据你们的逻辑，钱是万恶之源，你们意思是我们伟大的国家领导人在带领我们走上一条邪恶的道路吗？）

2，对方辩友问“现在有许多富人，他们仍然不快乐，你们如何解释呢？”

回答“we say that money can buy happiness ,but it don’t mean money

always buy happiness .it is just like you say you can write ,so you mean that you always write every second and minute ?(我们说钱能带来快来。但是不是总带来快乐。就像你说你能写字，那么你每分每秒都在写字吗？)

3，对方辩友问“钱能买来医药，但是不能买来健康；钱能买来书籍，不能买来知识，钱能买来物质，不能买来友情；钱能买来婚姻，不能买来爱情。如何解释？ 回答：“Somebody may say that money can not bring health, knowlege, friend, and love. Now there is a question whether you have not money you can keep them all. In fact money can not directly bring

these ,but money can pay for them all. Money can let you meet a better doctor in a better hospital ; money can let you study in a better school; money can let you feel more convenient with your friend ; money can let you free from care to receive and send love.

4，总结陈词

To sum up ,we still firmly believe the truth : money can absolutely bring us happiness.

We champion that money can buy

happiness，but it doesn't mean all happiness can be bought with money. there are a lot of things let you feel happiness, such as have dedicate food, gorgeous clothes ,exquisite gifts and so on. Through money ,we can buy all those foregong things which can bring happiness to life .

Bringing happiness is a function of money. Money is a way to acquire happiness not a goal. If money doesn’t make people feel happy ,it is because you don’t use money properly .The main problem is not money itself ,it is you that are lack of the knowledge to how to send money on right things .

It is universally acknowledged that your happiness is very dependent on the economic

prosperity of the country in which you live. The wealthier a nation is, the happier its citizens are.

And let us move on a contemporary phenomenon .we all know that parents will strongly object to their daughters' marriages unless their future sons-in-laws have sufficient money to buy house,car and lead a quality lify .

Some opponents claim that money cant give people health ,love ,time and etc. In effect , money can buy them abosolutely .Money can let you meet a better doctor in a better hospital ; money can let you receive a better education ; money can let you take bus ,train ,or plane these

convenient transportations to save much valuble time .

When you are blue and fed up ,you can use money to buy a ticket to zoo,scenic spots ,you will abosolutely feel happy ;when others who are

poor need your help ,you can use your money to help him ,you wil enjoy a psychological happiness derived from your inner heart .

Now we will assert our view once again. Money absolutely can buy happy .

第二篇：money and happiness英语辩论素材

Why Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness

Economists and psychologists—and the rest of us—have long wondered if more money would make us happier. Here's the answer.

All in all, it was probably a mistake to look for the answer to the eternal(永恒的) question—"Does money buy happiness?"—from people who practice what's called the dismal science（沉闷科学）. For when economists tackled（处理） the question, they started from the observation（观察报告） that when people put something up for sale they try to get as much for it as they can, and when people buy something they try to pay as little for it as they can. Both sides in the transaction（交易）, the economists noticed, are therefore behaving as if they would be more satisfied (happier, dare we say) if they wound up receiving more money (the seller) or holding on to more money (the buyer). Hence, more money must be better than less, and the only way more of something can be better than less of it is if it brings you greater contentment. The economists' conclusion: the more money you have, the happier you must be.

Depressed debutantes（初次参加社交活动的少女）, suicidal（自杀的） CEOs, miserable magnates（卑鄙的资本家） and other unhappy rich folks（人们） aren't the only ones giving the lie to this. "Psychologists have spent decades studying the relation between wealth and happiness," writes Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert in his best-selling "Stumbling on Happiness," "and they have generally concluded that wealth increases human happiness when it lifts people out of abject poverty and into the middle class but that it does little to increase happiness thereafter."

That flies in the face（悍然不顾） of intuition（直觉）, not to mention economic theory. According to standard economics, the most important commodity（日用品） you can buy with additional wealth is choice. If you have $20 in your pocket, you can decide between steak（牛排） and peanut butter（花生酱） for dinner, but if you have only $1 you'd better hope you already have a jar of jelly at home. Additional wealth also lets you satisfy additional needs and wants, and the more of those you satisfy the happier you are supposed to be. The trouble is, choice is not all it's cracked up to be. Studies show that people like selecting from among maybe half a dozen kinds of pasta at the grocery store but find 27 choices overwhelming, leaving them chronically on edge that they could have chosen a better one than they did. And wants, which are nice to be able to afford, have a bad habit of becoming needs (iPod, anyone?), of which an advertising- and media-saturated culture create endless numbers. Satisfying needs brings less emotional well-being than satisfying wants.

If money doesn't buy happiness, what does? Grandma was right when she told you to value health and friends, not money and stuff. Or as Diener and Seligman put it, once your basic needs are met "differences in well-being are less frequently due to income, and are more frequently due to factors such as social relationships and enjoyment at work." Other researchers add fulfillment, a sense that life has meaning, belonging to civic and other groups, and living in a democracy that respects individual rights and the rule of law. If a nation wants to increase its population's sense of well-being, says Veenhoven, it should make "less investment in economic growth and more in policies that promote good governance, liberties, democracy, trust and public safety."

(Curiously, although money doesn't buy happiness, happiness can buy money. Young people who describe themselves as happy typically earn higher incomes, years later, than those who said they were unhappy. It seems that a sense of well-being can make you more productive and more likely to show initiative and other traits that lead to a higher income. Contented people are also more likely to marry and stay married, as well as to be healthy, both of which increase happiness.)

If more money doesn't buy more happiness, then the behavior of most Americans looks downright insane, as we work harder and longer, decade after decade, to fatten our W-2s. But what is insane for an individual is crucial for a national economy—that is, ever more growth and consumption. Gilbert again: "Economies can blossom and grow only if people are deluded into believing that the production of wealth will make them happy … Economies thrive when individuals strive, but because individuals will strive only for their own happiness, it is essential that they mistakenly believe that producing and consuming are routes to personal well-being." In other words, if you want to do your part for your country's economy, forget all of the above about money not buying happiness.

More money can lead to more stress. The big salary you pull in from your high-paying job may not buy you much in the way of happiness. But it can buy you a spacious house in the suburbs. Trouble is, that also means a long trip to and from work, and study after study confirms what you sense daily: Even if you love your job, the little slice of everyday hell you call the commute can wear you down. You can adjust to most anything, but a stop-and-go drive or an overstuffed bus will make you unhappy whether it's your first day on the job or your last.

You endlessly compare yourself with the family next door. H.L. Mencken once quipped that the happy man was one who earned $100 more than his wife's sister's husband. He was right. Happiness scholars have found that how you stand relative to others makes a much bigger difference to your sense of well-being than how much you make in an absolute sense.

You may feel a touch of envy when you read about the glamorous lives of the absurdly wealthy, but the group you likely compare yourself with are folks Harvard economist Erzo Luttmer calls "similar others"--the people you work with, people you grew up with, old friends and old classmates. "You have to think, 'I could have been that person,' " Luttmer says.

Money Bliss If you want to know how to use the money you have to become happier, you need to understand just what it is that brings you happiness in the first place. And that's where the newest happiness research comes in.

Friends and family are a mighty elixir. One secret of happiness? People. Innumerable studies suggest that having friends matters a great deal. Large-scale surveys by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, for example, find that those with five or more close friends are 50% more likely to describe themselves as "very happy" than those with smaller social circles. Compared with the happiness-increasing powers of human connection, the power of money

looks feeble indeed. So throw a party, set up regular lunch dates--whatever it takes to invest in your friendships.

Even more important to your happiness is your relationship with your aptly named "significant other." People in happy, stable, committed relationships tend to be far happier than those who aren't. Among those surveyed by NORC from the 1970s through the 1990s, some 40% of married couples said they were "very happy"; among the never-married, only about a quarter were quite so exuberant. Just choose wisely. Divorce brings misery to everyone involved, though those who stick it out in a terrible marriage are the unhappiest of all.

Applying yourself to something hard makes you happy. We're addicted to challenges, and we're often far happier while working toward a goal than after we reach it. Challenges help you attain what psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls a state of "flow," total absorption in something that stretches you to the limits of your abilities, mental or physical. Buy the $1,000 golf clubs; pay for the $50-an-hour music lessons.

Money can buy happiness

WASHINGTON — They say money can't buy happiness. They're wrong.

At least up to a point.

People's emotional well-being - happiness - increases along with their income up to about $75,000, researchers report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

For folks making less than that, said Angus Deaton, an economist at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University, "Stuff is so in your face it's hard to be happy. It interferes with your enjoyment."

Deaton and Daniel Kahneman reviewed surveys of 450,000 Americans conducted in 2008 and 2009 for the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index that included questions on people's day-to-day happiness and their overall life satisfaction.

Happiness got better as income rose but the effect leveled out at $75,000, Deaton said. On the other hand, their overall sense of success or well-being continued to rise as their earnings grew beyond that point.

"Giving people more income beyond 75K is not going to do much for their daily mood ... but it is going to make them feel they have a better life," Deaton said in an interview.

Not surprisingly, someone who moves from a $100,000-a-year job to one paying $200,000 realizes an improved sense of success. That doesn't necessarily mean they are happier day to day, Deaton said.

The results were similar for other measures, Deaton said. For example, people were really happier on weekends, but their deeper sense of well-being didn't change.

Can Money Buy Happiness?

By Arthur C. Brooks

From the May/June 2008 Issue

Money doesn’t buy happiness, but success does. Capitalism, moored in values of hard work, honesty, and fairness, is key.

You’ve heard the axiom a thousand times: Money doesn’t buy happiness. Your parents told you this, and so did your priest. Still, if you’re like me, you would just as soon see for yourself if money buys happiness. People throughout history have insisted on striving to get ahead in spite of the well-worn axiom. America as a nation has struggled and striven all the way to the top of the world economic pyramid. Are we suffering from some sort of collective delusion, or is it possible that money truly does buy at least a certain amount of happiness?

In some countries, there is even some evidence that economic growth can create unhappiness. This is generally the case for nations experiencing rapid and chaotic development and thus opportunities for great wealth for the first time. Post-Soviet Russia is an example of this phenomenon. In the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Empire, a few entrepreneurs made vast fortunes in markets for oil and other primary resources. Yet post-Soviet Russia is a miserable place in which only about one in five citizens say they are very happy about their lives. Some development economists believe that cases of a few lucky entrepreneurs suddenly amassing large fortunes raised unreasonable expectations among ordinary Russians, creating a sense of extreme unfairness and leaving them deeply dissatisfied with their meager lot. And in this way, money created unhappiness.

So individual countries don’t seem to get much happier as they get richer. But are rich countries happier than poor countries?

The answer to this question depends on how poor a ―poor country‖ is. People in poor countries where much of the population lives below subsistence level are much unhappier than people in rich countries, on average. International comparative studies of happiness consistently place the poorest nations of the world—especially the countries of sub-Saharan Africa—at the very bottom.

In 2006, one study ranking countries in terms of happiness found that Zimbabwe and Burundi were the unhappiest places on earth. And this makes sense, of course: It is ridiculous to imagine that illiteracy, high child mortality, and the threat of starvation are any more pleasant or bearable to a Burundian than they would be to an American. But once countries get past the prosperity level that solves large-scale health and nutrition problems, income disparity pales in comparison with other factors in predicting happiness, such as culture and faith.

For example, compare Mexico and France. The cost-of-living difference between the two nations is vast, so economists don’t compare raw income; rather, they compare the ―purchasing power‖ of citizens. In Mexico—a nation in which most people live above the level of subsistence but still are much poorer than residents of the United States or Europe—the average purchasing power was about a third what it was in France in 2004. And yet Mexicans, in aggregate, are happier than the French. In Mexico, 63 percent of adults said they were very happy or completely happy. In France, only 35 percent gave one of these responses.

America as a nation has struggled and striven all the way to the top of the world economic pyramid. Are we suffering from some sort of collective delusion, or is it possible that money does buy at least a certain amount of happiness?It might be tempting to dismiss the happiness of Mexicans as delusional or a reflection of the fact that most Mexicans have no idea what life with material wealth is like. But this would be a mistake: There is simply no evidence that Mexicans lack an understanding of true happiness compared to the French. A more reasonable conclusion is that Mexican happiness—and French unhappiness—are caused in large measure by forces other than money.

So it’s true: Money doesn’t bring enduring happiness for countries, communities, or individuals, except perhaps when people start out in abject poverty. Why not? The answer has to do with what psychologists call ―adaptation.‖ Humans tend to adapt psychologically to their circumstances—including their monetary circumstances—and do so very quickly.

For individuals, communities, and nations, economic growth is like being on a treadmill, and getting richer is like speeding up the treadmill: We never get any closer to bliss.

Lottery winners have a harder time than the rest of us enjoying life's prosaic pleasures: watching television, shopping, talking with friends, and so forth. Money may not buy happiness, but there is one important way in which money and happiness are related: At any given moment, richer individuals within a country tend to be happier than poorer folks. In 2004, Americans earning more than $75,000 per year were more than twice as likely to say they were very happy than those earning less than $25,000. One study found that when happiness was measured on a 1–3 scale (where 3 was happiest), Americans in the bottom 10 percent of earners in the mid-1990s had an average happiness score of 1.94; those in the middle of the income distribution had a score of 2.19; and those in the top 10 percent scored 2.36.

This is strange, because we know that money by itself doesn’t bring much happiness. Many economists look at these facts and conclude that though we really don’t care about having money for its own sake, we do care about having more money than others. In other words, my money only makes me happy when I notice that I am richer than you. Or that you are poorer than I, of course. (Like the old saying goes, ―It’s not enough to succeed—your friends have to fail, too.‖)