Creating Happiness in a Community

How will i live a life that i am pleased to live, even though i don't have money to buy my way forward? We're not actually creating a certain kind of happiness. What we're doing instead is creating problems based on status, problems based on scarcity,. That can be solved by buying something. The need to buy more things keeps industry going. It creates the ratchet, the cycle that fuels the industrial world we live in. But as marshall salans has written so brilliantly, back in the day when there were cave men, life might have been much shorter. Back to where this rant started, are you happy? Bad question because of polycamy, because many of