No, but it can buy things that will make you happy even if only for a while. People need to stop thinking happiness can be an eternal state in your life, that's why happily ever afters don't work. In reality happiness comes in short bursts, winning a sports game, graduating, spending time with family/friends, and they have an even bigger effect if you actually work really hard to reach them. If people get to understand this, then life will be substantially easier since there will no longer be an unreachable goal in your path.