One recurring topic on HN is how miserable people here feel reading about crypto-billionaires, IPOs, cool projects , etc. The common response is that internet m

One recurring topic on HN is how miserable people here feel reading about crypto-billionaires, IPOs, cool projects , etc. The common response is that internet made it possible to marvel at 0.0001% people in their respective fields, which wasn't so easy in the past so we shouldn't feel too bad. This advice doesn't work, of course - we are not wired to internalize it properly. The very same thing happens with dating apps - you can see the most attractive people of your city and they are just a swipe away! Robin Hanson has touched this very dangerous topic a bit https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-the-dating-economy/ https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-t...