> In my view, you have a more-or-less conscious reason for doing everything you do, with happiness being at the top of the chain, the state you build and maint

> In my view, you have a more-or-less conscious reason for doing everything you do, with happiness being at the top of the chain, the state you build and maintain for no other reason. What you seem to be describing is a concept called "value" in the philosophy of ethics. "Happiness" is a pretty universal value. But it's not the only one, "Freedom" for instance. There's some hypothetical thought experiment that illustrates this, about people being offered to get hooked up to a VR eternal-happy-machine simulator, it's a bit more nuanced than that, you should probably look it up if you want to know :-) Anyway, it seems to me that the article is arguing that "Caring for/Giving to others" is somewhat of a neglected, "forgotten" value. But then, I happen to agree with most of what it says.