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People who optimize for happiness aren't bragging about having done so, usually. Its hard to do so without coming across as smug and holier than thou, "I have a
by h2odragon 4y ago
People who optimize for happiness aren't bragging about having done so, usually. Its hard to do so without coming across as smug and holier than thou, "I have achieved nirvana and you haven't, striving peasant."
Many disregarded, lower income, "lower class" people have as much ability as people paid many times the income, but they have chosen to balance their life differently, often for greater happiness for themselves or others. Those people who have too many dogs, for example.
- elefantastisch 4y agoIndeed. I'm reminded of xkcd's train full of people all thinking the same thing: "Look at these people. Glassy-eyed automatons going about their daily lives, never stopping to look around and think! I'm the only conscious human in a world of sheep." (https://xkcd.com/610/ https://xkcd.com/610/) We do not have access to the internal experiences of other people, so we should not presume to judge them. There's a lot of good stuff in the article, but there's no need to perpetuate this absurd "world of sheep" perspective.