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What about the idea that pride is the most important value to certain people and pride sometimes comes from your wealth, achievements, and performance relative
by nugget 9y ago
What about the idea that pride is the most important value to certain people and pride sometimes comes from your wealth, achievements, and performance relative to the rest of society? The paradox would then be that as society becomes wealthier, the gap between the wealthiest people and average people widens in absolute terms, broadly increasing negative emotions.
Maybe immersive VR solves this by allowing the mass of people to transition from "lives of quiet desperation" to being rulers of their own miniature virtual worlds.
- Consultant32452 9y agoI think you're too blinded by the US, which is not even close to the majority of the world in terms of population or land mass. Would you rather be a Chinese woman born in China in 1950 or a Chinese woman born in China today? What are the odds you'd have been a victim of infanticide then vs now? How about your potential for education, food security, holding a decent job, likelihood of being victim of violent crime, etc? Do you think that the potential for jealousy overrules all of that?