It’s difficult for someone who has taken a 20% loss to not feel aggrieved by another who’s taken a 100% gain. Even if the person taking the loss started at 100

It’s difficult for someone who has taken a 20% loss to not feel aggrieved by another who’s taken a 100% gain. Even if the person taking the loss started at 100 and ended up at 80, while the person making the gain started at 20 and ended up at 40. You’re still going to feel persecuted at 80 because of the relative loss. The human mind is super resilient and adaptable. That can be less helpful when it’s adapting to good things, making it the new baseline normal. One thing I think most people can agree on: relative to recent history, 2020 has been a pretty bad year.