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~~jwb~~ · 09-24-2019, 07:07 PM

Well there is happy poor people and miserable poor people just like any group. Some people are just better adjusted than others.

But there's definitely unhappiness caused by lack of money. And a lot of it. Where as unhappiness caused by lack of poverty... Not so much.

~~jwb~~ · 09-24-2019, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

unhappiness from a lack of cause, purpose, function

you don't consider these things if you're in survival mode, but the moment you aren't just a different kind of dread sets in

"the problem of leisure
what to do for pleasure"

... Yes you do. Depending on who you are. The idea that existential crisis is something reserved for the privileged few is just quite simply wrong.

09-24-2019, 07:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	Well there is happy poor people and miserable poor people just like any group. Some people are just better adjusted than others. But there's definitely unhappiness caused by lack of money. And a lot of it. Where as unhappiness caused by lack of poverty... Not so much.