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@juan
Honest question Do you think you are happier than past generations?
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@kepano
I'm fairly confident that the lows aren't as low
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@eq
Don’t know about happier but now is def the best time to be alive in the history of humans
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@aman
Happiness is incredibly adaptive. You can be just as happy with much worse living conditions or much better. Some good books on this are Stumbling on Happiness and Man's search for meaning
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@jk
Yes, but more looming pressure. Big successes in my grandparents and parents' generations makes it feel like I need to succeed beyond what they achieved.
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@zico
I don't know if happier is the right word, definitely more self aware.
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@eitzi.eth
Hard to say, but I think not
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@slowcrypto
Hard to say. But I seem happier than most people now. @aman's point on adaptive happiness is good.
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@alecurtu
Probably not… keeping up with the joneses has converted to keeping up with the Kardashians. Thank you social graph.
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@ariane
Not sure about happy. But definitely more comfortable. Which in comparison, makes me happy.
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@les
I am as happy as every generation past.
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@jayjay
I think this varies so much person to person. I’d say I’m happier than my parents. But it’s got nothing to with the generation and more to do with having a more open mind and being more of an optimist
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@maybeimwasabi
We (in developed nations) have more opportunity and time to reflect, and for leisure, than ever before. The *speed* of technology change is unprecedented. The rate is increasing. This comes with a new set of challenges to adapt, and thrive.
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@andyjagoe
very insightful quote from charlie munger on this: 'The world is not driven by greed, it's driven by envy' so although everyone is 5x better off than the past, most people only think about what others have that they don't https://twitter.com/austen/status/1568606879609417735
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no matter how bad things get we live in the best world that has ever existed amazon.ca/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Better/dp/1250123828
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i think every generation can reach same happiness highs given the abilities and constraints of their time also happiness even wasn’t a concept to strive toward in life until the 18th century https://hbr.org/2012/01/the-history-of-happiness
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@bobarulz
I am as happy as I make myself. And if every generation strived for that as well, then we’re the same level of happy but in a different time and circumstance.
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@arjunram
It’s a mixed bag. Prior generations had constraints and the smallest of things gave them joy. We live in an age of abundance where the smallest of things give us pain.
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@tomskyrme
People mistake comfort for happiness. Many would answer yes but dig deeper and it would be no. Overall I don’t think we are happier than previous generations
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@corporatefilth.eth
I think trying to measure your own happiness against someone else’s is bad practice
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