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stupid things like ... living 2 hrs from work to have a 4 hr round trip
Rin saysstupid things like ... living 2 hrs from work to have a 4 hr round trip
So many people like that (thinking that they're) Living The Dream in the Bay Area for so many years.
Most people are rather stupid and easily fooled by propaganda and hucksters tricks.
Don’t expect too much from them.
Happiness can be two things for me:
1)Nietche’s definition: “the feeling that power is increasing, that difficulties are being overcome”
This is the feeling of accomplishment one gets as hard work and skill and sacrifice pays off.
2)Personal contact. Connecting with other people is also a Path towards happiness. A great conversation with a friend or a great date with your lady is a rush of good feelings on the rise.
It’s why people get married, so they get both of those things on the regular, and have a life partner to help them work towards their shared goals. I know I have more great conversations with my wife than with anyone else, and she’s always my hot date.
Anyway...
I have never met anyone who has only good things to say about their SO.
www.youtube.com/embed/67VATPxULPk
Excerpt: "Happiness research has led to some surprising and troubling discoveries. People seem to reliably seek out a few things that make them unhappy.
One of these things is Facebook, by far the world's largest social-networking site. In a 2019 paper, economists Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer and Matthew Gentzkow investigated how much money they had to pay Facebook users in order to get them to deactivate the Facebook app for one or two months. They found that the median amount was $100, and the average was $180 (the latter being larger because a few users really loved Facebook).
This suggests that Facebook, which is free to use, generates a huge amount of utility — more than $370 billion a year in consumer surplus in the U.S. alone. This bolsters the argument of those who believe that free digital services have added a lot of unmeasured output to the global economy.
But Allcott et al. also found that the people who deactivated Facebook as part of the experiment were happier afterward, reporting higher levels of life satisfaction and lower levels of depression and anxiety. The change was modest but significant — equal to about 25 to 40 percent of the beneficial effect typically reported for psychotherapy.
Why are people willing to pay so much money for something that reduces their happiness? One possibility is that social media acts like an addictive drug — in fact, the people Allcott et al. paid to deactivate Facebook ended up using it less after the experiment was over."