“Money Buys Everything” Sparks Debate on 5ch — “You Can Buy Class Too”

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A thread titled “In the end, this world runs on money” popped up on the Nanimo Jikkyou G board, sparking a debate over whether things like class, happiness, and love can actually be bought with money. One comment arguing “class can’t be bought with money” drew a popular pushback: “You can buy class too — if you’re rich, you don’t really need it anyway.” The thread snowballed into discussions of happiness theory and fantasies about what people would do with infinite money.

1Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 09:56:39.18ID:ID:W0Zxk6kc0
If you've got money, you can get anything
Even a human life
6Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 09:57:54.30ID:URhS3RmQ0
Class can't be bought with money, Leorio. (a nod to the money-obsessed Hunter x Hunter character)
8Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 09:58:40.82ID:W0Zxk6kc0
>>6
You can buy class too
If you're rich you don't really need class anyway
Though plenty of rich people stay tacky
12Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:01:04.47ID:zJUWknrt0
Happiness can't be bought
Well, that's if there are tons of unhappy rich people
Depends how you play it
14Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:01:59.58ID:W0Zxk6kc0
>>12
There aren't tons of them
Unhappy poor people are way more common
17Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:03:59.66ID:W0Zxk6kc0
Extreme example
Say you had 5 billion yen
Just dump it all in the S&P 500 and let it sit, you'd pull in about 30 million yen a year
You could sleep all day if you wanted

But without money you'd be grinding away for like 20,000 yen a day
21Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:06:53.52ID:zhoqwXgF0
>>17
There are better dividend options than that
18Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:06:11.86ID:HbLY9o1m0
As long as the money keeps coming, someone will love you
24Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:07:54.19ID:W0Zxk6kc0
>>18
Exactly this
With money everyone respects you and people suck up to you
39Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:20:35.54ID:LXaT9FKA0
>>18
That's not you being loved, that's just women who love money coming around
27Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:11:22.92ID:KTNTi/ZF0
Well, if you start from the conclusion and reverse-engineer the logic, sure, you can make that argument work
37Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:20:12.22ID:W0Zxk6kc0
>>27
Then let me ask, is there anything money can't buy?
48Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:23:43.76ID:B9pcOOUSH
Money's just a means to an end
It's like in-game currency that lowers the difficulty
It makes things easier to get, but whether you actually get them is a different story
53Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:25:39.90ID:oyQt6xtA0
Whoever owns the foundational AI tech is the strongest
To AI, humans are basically just bugs
56Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:27:01.39ID:tifjKQ/Y0
>>53
So how much are you making off that 'foundational tech' of yours (lol)?
63Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:29:48.98ID:gcvWUJ5k0
The dumber someone is, the more they want to boil it down to one simple thing
They don't get that money only works once you already have a healthy body, a peaceful world, a prosperous society, and plenty of good content around you
67Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:31:03.07ID:Py8yEXvU0
>>63
As a baseline, most people are healthy and content is already overflowing in the world
65Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:30:39.32ID:LODq1mZx0
That's just money-loving women flocking to you — you're basically a creepy old dude getting cheated on constantly
73Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:33:25.56ID:F+56DibB0
>>65
Even a woman who doesn't love money would strip if you dropped 100 million yen in front of her
77Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:36:11.77ID:Py8yEXvU0
So far, nobody's actually named a single thing money can't buy
78Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:37:08.24ID:gcvWUJ5k0
>>77
Well for starters, the 'birth lottery' (gacha) — what country and parents you're born to
79Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:37:50.93ID:vdnAUywL0
Once you have money, you just start wanting status, honor, and academic credentials next — the wanting never ends
80Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:38:07.06ID:Py8yEXvU0
>>79
Status and academic credentials can both be bought with money too
90Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:42:59.41ID:WswqlwSf0
>>79
Status and honor can be bought with money
Just buy a decently big company or hospital and make yourself the president or director
102Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:48:06.20ID:gKF0qAe50
Intelligence and refinement can't be bought with money
105Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:50:03.57ID:wUmhWmjE0
>>102
If you've got money you don't need either of those — they're worthless
108Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:51:13.80ID:dtYIScT70
>>105
Sounds like someone who'd get scammed real easy
120Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 11:04:24.20ID:NsnBK/oR0
>>105
If anything, that's something the poor don't need but the rich do
103Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:49:19.48ID:8I/V9TXR0
Honestly, the only things money can buy are trivial stuff
And it's because I don't want to waste my life buying that trivial stuff that I need money in the first place
106Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 10:50:34.90ID:wUmhWmjE0
>>103
You're literally wasting your life on it right now

*This article is compiled from excerpts and summaries of the 5ch (Nanimo Jikkyou G board) thread 【[Truth] In the End, This World Runs on Money】.

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