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With unemployment, happiness is very directly related to your your bank account balance, or the willingness for others to provide for you.

With employment, there's usually a lower limit since there's a reasonable change you're able to eat and stay out of the rain.

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Which shows that happiness is not contingent on employment, but on bank account balance, which is not the philosophy a lot of people push when they say lack of work will ruin people.

Replace bank account balance with bitcoin wallet balance, but sure.

If you're not feeling productive in a some facet of your life, the Netflix binge-ing goes numb reeeeeeal quick.

I can be productive by contributing to OSS or writing guides for a favorite video game or something, doesn't have to be work. :)

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