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The whole piece is a bit verbose, but the writer has a point. A lot of people are never satisfied, and that doesn't make the world a better place. The irony is
by FrankyHollywood 9y ago
The whole piece is a bit verbose, but the writer has a point. A lot of people are never satisfied, and that doesn't make the world a better place.
The irony is unsatisfaction is rewarded. You can earn millions of dollars with making the world less beautifull, by selling people bad loanes or artificially keeping medicine prices high.
I don't know if people can learn to have enough, or 'the system' must enforce it a little bit.
- mooreds 9y ago"rewarded" by the market. Let's not confuse extrinsic reward ($$$) within intrinsic reward, which is living the life you want to live. The equating of money and utility (in the economic sense) happens very quickly in micro economics 101, and then you spend the rest of the class speaking about money. But that is just because utility is very hard to track or reason about. Plenty of folks living good lives without being flashy about it.
- notenoughdhh 9y agoSatisfaction or non-satisfaction is totally orthogonal to whether the world is a "better" place or not. Lots of examples of people who were never satisfied who made the world a better place, e.g. Steve Jobs.
- petercooper 9y agoA lot of people are never satisfied, and that doesn't make the world a better place. A lack of satisfaction can also materialize in positive ways that do improve the world. This drive is innately human and is what led us to agriculture, medicine, technology, and to wherever else we're going to go.
- FrankyHollywood 9y agoThats true offcourse, dis-satisfaction can also be very positive. Anyone knows the word for 'never having enough money, land or power and aquiring it at the cost of others'?