Money can't buy happiness, but it helps you look for it in more places.

Berle’s quip plays on the familiar moral maxim that wealth cannot purchase genuine happiness. The punchline concedes, with comic cynicism, that money still expands one’s options: it can buy comfort, leisure, travel, and access to experiences that may increase the chances of satisfaction. The humor depends on reframing “happiness” as something you can hunt for—suggesting both the restlessness of modern desire and the way consumer culture turns well-being into a pursuit. The line also implies an inequality: those with resources can search widely, while those without are constrained, even if happiness itself remains elusive.