Suze Orman gets annoyed. People assume more cash means more joy. She calls it a trap. In a recent Yahoo Finance article , the personal finance icon draws from her 2017 blog post ‘Happiness is Always Affordable.’ ‘People, please listen to me: Money will not make you happy,’ she writes. Basic needs? Sure, pay those bills. Beyond that, chase wealth for bliss? Dead end. Orman knows wealthy folks. Plenty. ‘They are so not happy,’ she says. Her own path proves it. Grew up thinking riches would fix her family’s woes. Became a top coach. Built a fortune. Realized: money amplifies you. Miserable inside? It magnifies the misery. Studies back her up, sort of. Daniel Kahneman’s 2010 research pegged $75,000 as the income plateau for emotional well-being. No gains after. Matthew Killingsworth pushed back recently. Happiness climbs past $500,000, he found. Orman shrugs. Doesn’t matter. True contentment? Relationships. Time with loved ones. ‘Celebrating what you have today.’ Boom. Free asset, built from thoughts and deeds.…