I get the Maslow argument, but after reading https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinke

I get the Maslow argument, but after reading https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-... it sounds like one can explain one's intuitive sense of the world's happiness in both absolute and relative terms.