Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

The remark draws a line between money as a means and money as an end. It concedes a commonsense point—financial security can relieve stress and enable comfort—while arguing that beyond a threshold, additional wealth stops translating into greater well-being. At that stage, money becomes self-referential: it generates opportunities to accumulate still more, but not necessarily deeper satisfaction, meaning, or connection. In a Simon-esque, wryly pragmatic register, the quip also satirizes the treadmill of affluence: the pursuit of “more” can become habitual and socially rewarded even when it no longer improves one’s lived experience.