> There's no recipe for happiness that primarily involves looking in the other guy's bowl. Even if you have everything to eat, you will still need unhappy if he has more.
What kind of happiness demands billions of dollars? These things go both ways.
> No wonder you guys constantly post about unhappiness. You are obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses.
As opposed to the ultrarich who have actively pursued this inequality? Curious, it consistently only goes one way in your mind.
> Much more joy if you instead care only about absolute living standards. My life has improved a lot and if Jeff Bezos appears before me and will make me 10x as wealthy if he is 100x I will gladly choose that.
Who said that Bezos could do that? Who said that wealth is created by the ultrarich? No one, but your mind seems to think so for some reason. Well, I’m sure you could find supposed evidence of it on X and the Washington Post, for whatever reason that might be.
> We live as long as kings, with greater variety of food and drink, greater variety of entertainment, and big comfortable houses. I'd take this trade 10/10 times.
So? This is a forum visited by high-earning US software engineers (that’s not me but a lot are). Not the kinds of people that the last four decades have hurt (the most). Which is why you get these surprise comments in these threads. “Woah guys, I’ve been reading these numbers lately and people are actually poor out there.”
No, I don’t think that it’s the Microsoft staff engineers that are personally mad about the state of things.
What kind of happiness demands billions of dollars? These things go both ways.
> No wonder you guys constantly post about unhappiness. You are obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses.
As opposed to the ultrarich who have actively pursued this inequality? Curious, it consistently only goes one way in your mind.
> Much more joy if you instead care only about absolute living standards. My life has improved a lot and if Jeff Bezos appears before me and will make me 10x as wealthy if he is 100x I will gladly choose that.
Who said that Bezos could do that? Who said that wealth is created by the ultrarich? No one, but your mind seems to think so for some reason. Well, I’m sure you could find supposed evidence of it on X and the Washington Post, for whatever reason that might be.
> We live as long as kings, with greater variety of food and drink, greater variety of entertainment, and big comfortable houses. I'd take this trade 10/10 times.
So? This is a forum visited by high-earning US software engineers (that’s not me but a lot are). Not the kinds of people that the last four decades have hurt (the most). Which is why you get these surprise comments in these threads. “Woah guys, I’ve been reading these numbers lately and people are actually poor out there.”
No, I don’t think that it’s the Microsoft staff engineers that are personally mad about the state of things.