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iii@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

My guess: people aren’t made for hapiness, but for the pursuit of hapiness. Quality of life has not been improving for most in EU, au contraire.

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Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Negativity bias has been an evolutionary advantage for hundreds of thousands of years of our development. You don’t exactly “breed out” a trait that has been honed to such a degree in a generation or two.

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lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I feel quality of life has improved massively in EU. Everything is the best it has ever been in my region.

In the past few years options to get things delivered to my home tripled. Crime rate is way down. Even though I’m not a vegan, I have many good vegan options I often choose now (like various vegan chocolate from all supermarkets near me). Public transport is super cheap at the moment. More than 90% of my company works from home. A lot of things have been automated or work online, e.g. payroll, most bills, banking, some administrative things, getting doctors appointments, etc…

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alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I agree with this take.

We are wired to find the next problem and to solve it. Enjoy our work for a short while and then start looking for the next problem to solve.

Whether it is cultural or genetic, I don’t know, but it’s definitely very deep in our western psyche and it will not be going away any time soon.

The main problem I see is that a lot of people in Western society nowadays use complaining as a substitute for action, and so problems don’t get solved, but people convince themselves that they took action by complaining.

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