snoopy7548
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Aldous Huxley, the better read more intelligent version of Ayn Rand.This is the premise of Brave New World by Aldeux Huxley. Basically without some sort of strife in our lives, we will fail to flourish. Challenges drive creativity and therefore science, art, etc.
A good read if it a bit nerdy.
I personally have a theory that people require problems in their lives in order to be "happy" and modern society lacks those problems. As a species we evolved in a world where people had to constantly worry about getting food or becoming it themselves at one point even almost going extinct. As a result natural selection led to people with brains better geared for dealing with problems becoming the default human.
Fast forward tens of thousands of years and for most of that time the same basic problems persisted, where is my food and am I going to die today. However in modern society both of those drives are mostly gone. Generally speaking we don't have any real problems anymore so we latch on to new but irrelevant for survival problems, many of which are seen in the political realm.
In a world in which there are no problems such as being stupid rich I believe the mind can do funny things without that stimulus. While the poor $15k/yr person does still have some very real problems and that actually can keep them happier in a sense.
I think a quote from The Matrix says it best.
what do you mean we don't have real problems anymore? I still can't have a pizza ordered and delivered to me while I am in transit in my Uber ride. Still waiting for the next Silicon Valley Jerk to fix that problem for me and, of course, CHANGE THE WORLD by doing it.
I disagree with this 100000000000%.Once you make more than that you're either saving the money, or wasting it on stupid stuff that has little to no happiness return like ridiculously expensive meals or outings that are very temporary
$11k in a day because I'd work about a couple days a month.
I wonder if working a day or two a month still gets old... "This is bullshit! I've gotta go to work tomorrow. 30 day weekends suck. They need to be longer!"$11k in a day because I'd work about a couple days a month.
No. That's what rich people tell poor people to make them feel better about themselves and not riot out in the streets.Also, saying money doesn't buy happiness is something that poor people tell themselves to make them feel better about themself.
I personally have a theory that people require problems in their lives in order to be "happy" and modern society lacks those problems. As a species we evolved in a world where people had to constantly worry about getting food or becoming it themselves at one point even almost going extinct. As a result natural selection led to people with brains better geared for dealing with problems becoming the default human.
Fast forward tens of thousands of years and for most of that time the same basic problems persisted, where is my food and am I going to die today. However in modern society both of those drives are mostly gone. Generally speaking we don't have any real problems anymore so we latch on to new but irrelevant for survival problems, many of which are seen in the political realm.
In a world in which there are no problems such as being stupid rich I believe the mind can do funny things without that stimulus. While the poor $15k/yr person does still have some very real problems and that actually can keep them happier in a sense.
I disagree with this 100000000000%.
For the most part I'd much rather spend money on an experience than something tangible. There's only so much tangible things I need/want, there isn't even enough time in a lifetime to experience everything I wish I could experience and places I want to go. My wife and I still talk about meals we had on our first trip out of the country in 2005.
