R Madhavan: Beggar's Rs 100 happiness beats businessman's crore profit

R Madhavan is an actor who likes to think about big questions.

He went on a podcast and talked about whether money makes people happy.

He said money and happiness are not really connected.

Our dreams and needs depend on how we grow up, which he called conditioning.

One person might really want a Rolls-Royce car, while a billionaire's child thinks that car is just normal.

He asked a fun question: who sleeps happier at night, a beggar who suddenly finds Rs 100 or a business person who makes a profit of Rs 20,000 crore?

He thinks the beggar might be happier because the money comes at just the right time.

He also said the richest person in the world cannot be 10 billion times happier than everyone else.

So he believes happiness depends on what we need and our situation, not just how much money we have.

Madhavan was recently in a movie called GDN about inventor Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu.