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Originally Posted by el_draco
Without reading it, sounds like the same self justification tripe. If you take a gander at most of the mugs you see on the street, they aren't dancing with joy, in fact you're flat out seeing a smirk in most places. Those that are, probably doped on anti-depressants or high on something else. Wealthy? in terms of the all mighty $, maybe, but it's a worthless measure. Bugger GDP; that measures greed. Try a "happiness index" and you'll find we are quite impoverished.
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People have a right to get up in the morning, suck a fresh lemon, and go around with a scowl the rest of the day.
When they are affluent, people have the luxury of, and some a propensity for, engaging in irrational thinking to make themselves feel miserable, for example, by constantly telling themselves how the world isn't fair and it should be, and it's corollary about "why does this always to me?" - rather than being happy and acknowledging that the world doesn't give a s##t about them. Also very likely is that they get into the self-esteem trap, trying to get more and more of it, while failing to realize that it is an artificial construct and and that self-esteem and self loathing are two sides of the same coin.
By way of contrast very poor people in most of the world, spend from sun-up to sun-down just trying to make ends meet, and don't get much time to indulge in make-miserable thinking.
That said, I still haven't seen thousands of Australians taking boats to try find happiness in say Sri Lanka.
Cheers,
Renato