So, it is true. Money doesn’t buy you happiness. Sure, it can get you a home so you’re not sleeping in the rain and clothes so that you’re warm and an Aston Martin so that you don’t have to walk (eew, walking), but it won’t ever buy you the feeling you get when the rain clears and the sun peaks through the clouds.

The poor owner of Alibaba, Jack Ma, who is by no means actually poor, is unhappy.

“This month I’m not very happy—I think too much pressure,” Ma said. “I try to make myself happy no, because I know that if I’m not happy my colleagues are not happy, and my shareholders are not happy, and my customers are not happy.”

As China’s richest man, Jack finds it a burden. With the company growing and branching out into different and new areas, he explains that people are “surrounding you for money”.

He hopes to achieve a greater sense of happiness by finding a way to give back to society.

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