> If it’s possible to cause unhappiness, surely it’s possible to cause happiness, too? This isn't a reasonable conclusion. It's easy to make someone unhappy by

> If it’s possible to cause unhappiness, surely it’s possible to cause happiness, too? This isn't a reasonable conclusion. It's easy to make someone unhappy by denying them basic human needs: food, comfort, entertainment, security, community. Once those needs are met, it's much less obvious how to get to the next tier. It's mostly well-accepted that money is correlated with happiness for people in poverty, but the relationship quickly flattens out for folks who are comfortably middle-class. People instinctively know how to get to a certain baseline, once they have the resources to do so. Moving past that is a separate question entirely.