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Maybe it's ok to be a bit poorer if it makes you a bit happier.
by Veen 1y ago
Maybe it's ok to be a bit poorer if it makes you a bit happier.
- mytailorisrich 1y agoThe issue in all similar stories is that it is not "a bit" poorer and not happier at all.
- _1tem 1y agoThis is the typical Western have-it-all superiority complex thinking. "No one has it better than us. No one has built a better civilization than us." I say that as a Westerner myself. You simply can't imagine what a better life looks like, and how shitty life has gotten in the over-financialized West until you actually experience something truly different.
- mytailorisrich 1y agoA bit harsh. This is not a "superiority complex" this is my experience of actually visiting third world countries and the reality of data (education, health, migration, etc). Also strange to hit on Westerners when you mentioned that you live in Europe. This sounds a little like the utopian and ideological Westerner who thinks that the West is 'bad' (I don't even know what "over-financialized West" means...) and non-Westerners may be poorer but happier, which in the extreme archs all the way back to the "Myth of the Noble savage" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage
- _1tem 1y agoIt is Europe but not the West. The “West” I am defining here as the NATO countries with a high GDP. Over-financialized means exactly that — over-reliance on interest-based and venture capital funding, and a culture of profit optimization at all costs that ruins everything else.
- lupusreal 1y agoSquandering money is easy, so that's a theory you can test yourself.