• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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        7 hours ago

        No, you’re picturing a linear curve on a graph (i.e. a straight line). Most systems in life do not behave linearly though. An S shape is probably more accurate, with happiness levelling off past a certain point.

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          14 hours ago

          After that, it starts going downhill.

          No study suggests this. It keeps going up - you’re just hitting diminishing returns.

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            13 hours ago

            There’s a trillionaire that is desperate to get into pedophile parties, and between him and the common person, there’s a lot of millionaires and billionaires in those pedophile parties, so there’s clearly a downward trending curve.

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              10 hours ago

              Yeah but that’s because he’s a shit excuse for a human, and is fundamentally broken. Whereas a normie would self-actualize with the resources to do so.

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        Maybe his happiness is so far up the scale it folded back in on itself and circled back to depression. Like getting a burn from dry ice.

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      12 hours ago

      Having financial security eases with financial worries to an extent but doesn’t entirely solve even that issue nor does it even begin to deal with the unrelated issues. One can be financially secure and absolutely miserable.

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        I often think about how if I was financially secure for the future it would not change the state of my country or the world. I would be happier day to day to some degree but it would not change whats going on.