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> The human mind acclimates to improvements remarkably fast, and the joy found in such novelties tends to be fleeting and quickly fade as it becomes just another normal part of everyday life

The good (?) news is that this also works in reverse. So if we ever suffer a serious downgrade in living standards it’s not a serious issue. We’ll get used to it in no time :)

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Does it? I get painfully nostalgic even about stuff that was objectively worse, don't even want to try to imagine how it must be with things that were better.

I get nostalgic too, but it's about my once young age that is forever in the past.

Well, we just had a global experiment wherein people all over world suddenly had to adjust their lives in a major way, and I think we came through alright.

I think you forgot a /s. A lot of people's mental health diminished quite a bit the past few years.

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