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"what do you care how many people are happy for reasons you don't approve of?" The negative externalities. "how long until you demand the best for yourself fr
by giantg2 2y ago
"what do you care how many people are happy for reasons you don't approve of?"
The negative externalities.
"how long until you demand the best for yourself from yourself?"
This sounds like a fast on-ramp to the hedonic treadmill, some classic advertising pitch, and that there are some very self-important people in the world.
- exe34 2y ago> This sounds like a fast on-ramp to the hedonic treadmill, some classic advertising pitch, and that there are some very self-important people in the world. It's actually from Epictetus. He was a slave, but he was happy. Then he was released and taught in a school he founded. One of his students wrote up his notes into Discourses. This was eventually read by a young Marcus Aurelius, who grew up to be one of the better Roman emperors. The same philosophy united a lame slave and the most powerful man in the world, two very different people who lived ~100 years apart.
- giantg2 2y agoBut there's a huge amount missing when one just says you deserve the best things. I think his teachings are more about self discipline and making the best of things.
- exe34 2y agothat's true. the demand is to yourself. and the steps to getting the best is to realise that you can be happy with very little.