just goes to show that this project might have spent more money on marketing and advertising rather than on their engineering and architect departments.
It is the dissatisfaction with what we have that makes us unhappy. Dopamine has a lot to answer for, because if you're high in dopamine you are constantly searching without ever succeeding.
So the very thing that makes successful people successful also tends to make them unhappy.
The state of searching is a state of dissatisfaction. You have to stop searching in order to be content.
He said something like, “Well-off people suffer, of course, but those types of suffering are more difficult to measure and entail interventions beyond vaccines or food distribution. I don’t focus on those types of suffering because there so much of the basic kind and also because it’s too hard of a problem.”
When I segmented suffering by the individuals’ place on Maslow’s hierarchy, it helped me develop more compassion for the rich than is in vogue. “Oh, that guy driving that Lamborghini isn’t hungry, but he might be the loneliest person I’ve ever met.”
It might be? Suffering is entirely subjective...
> These are spoiled brats grown up.
Yes indeed.