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b_b · 3489 days ago · link · · parent · post: I don't understand why you have to pay to live on a planet you were born on.
This isn't a crisis or modernity. People have been unhappy since the dawn of time. Successive technological advances have all been (at least ostensibly) attempts to alleviate our collective privation and penury. Even though middle class people in the developed world pretty much are free of starvation, happiness still evades most people. I think this is more a fact that people view happiness as a thing to be achieved rather than one emotion among many. Life is a process, and there is no end game. Of course none of us chose to be born, but we each have the choice whether to keep living. The fact that so few of us choose so is a testament to life not being all that bad, no? At least, it seems to be the lesser of the two evils, so to speak.