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If you lost your current status and became poor in a way matching your description, would you consider that bad? If so, in what ways would it be bad? Would you
by CPLX 7y ago
If you lost your current status and became poor in a way matching your description, would you consider that bad? If so, in what ways would it be bad?
Would you be content, or seek to regain your current status? If you found that impossible would you be happy with your life?
These are rhetorical questions, as the standard win-the-forum-argument response is anticipated and will not be helpful.
Empathy and introspection, however, will.
- yters 7y agoI would actually be pretty much content if stuck in that position. I grew up without running water, electricity for an hour on Friday, confined to an island that was less than a square mile, and I had to entertain myself without the luxuries of modern technology. So, it is actually very easy for me to be content with pretty much any Western standard of living.