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    1. Aella‏Verified account @Aella_Girl 17 Dec 2020

      I grew up low class, and expected my life to be hard - only I didn’t process it as “hard”; it was just how life *was.* I was going to have to spend the rest of my life doing minimum-wage physically-hard labor, and then getting pregnant. That was the plan, but more importantly-

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    2. Aella‏Verified account @Aella_Girl 17 Dec 2020

      I didn’t register this plan as a bad one, a sad one. It made the “I need to set aside my feelings and use my willpower” part of my brain very active, a dominant way of being. The pain in my legs from being on my feet all day was just the *way life was*. And I was grateful! -

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    3. Aella‏Verified account @Aella_Girl 17 Dec 2020

      I’d grown up reading stories throughout history and was intimately familiar with how new and different my current lifestyle was. I was happy I wasn’t working in coal mines, or under threat of war, and that there was no famine. I viewed it as a normal feature of human existence-

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    4. Aella‏Verified account @Aella_Girl 17 Dec 2020

      That you had to set aside your feelings and use willpower. This is the way everyone had to live in history, this was a default of existence - and anything more than this was luxury. I felt hyper aware of how unusual our state of civilization was, how luxurious my life was already

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    5. Aella‏Verified account @Aella_Girl 17 Dec 2020

      And this is why I feel a little confused when people get really angry at stuff like the minimum wage, or having to work two jobs and live in a shitty apartment. People are complaining at working conditions that I went through with actual gratitude.

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    6. Aella‏Verified account @Aella_Girl 17 Dec 2020

      It seems very clear to me that the issue is not absolute working conditions and living standards, it is narrative and contrast. People have been much happier with much less, but these people are less happy with more. And I can’t help but think - have you tried being grateful?

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    7. Aella‏Verified account @Aella_Girl 17 Dec 2020

      Nobody had to give you your job. Nobody owes you anything. You are incredibly fortunate to be living this far into an advanced civilization at all. This is a matter of perspective - and sure this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to improve your life, but the entitlement is bizarre.

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    8. Aella‏Verified account @Aella_Girl 17 Dec 2020

      Maybe not bizarre. Just as I was grateful by paying a lot of attention to the state of past humans, I think a lot of the dissatisfaction with living conditions comes from paying attention to the more fortunate. We have some idea that inequality is *inherently* wrong.

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      Aella‏Verified account @Aella_Girl 17 Dec 2020

      There’s a good chunk of people who would like to lower the wealth of the very rich even if this benefited nobody else, even if the wealth didn’t get redistributed at all!

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        2. Viktor‏ @viktor_roamin 17 Dec 2020
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          For far too many, the default assumption is that people had some sort of advantage to get them where they were. It’s what happens when you try to set the pivot point around things that people can’t control (race, sex, etc) as opposed to the things you can (work ethic, etc).

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        3. Aella‏Verified account @Aella_Girl 17 Dec 2020
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          Even so, that seems deeply fine to me. Life is unfair - I was told this constantly growing up. I never expectrd my advantages to be the same as others. Do other people get taught to expect this?

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        2. Daniel Zylberkan‏ @danzyl66 17 Dec 2020
          Replying to @Aella_Girl

          You can't expect everyone to be happy with less just because you're happy with it or it's relatively more than in the past

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        3. Aella‏Verified account @Aella_Girl 17 Dec 2020
          Replying to @danzyl66

          No, but my point is the unhappiness is really more due to the narratives they're using than due to any sort of objective injustice.

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        1. Picky‏ @counterpicky 17 Dec 2020
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          You have to remember tho that systems are resistant to change so things will always change more slowly than they should, hence people pushing for the change to happen. It's good to be grateful (big correlator with happiness) but discontent is necessary for progress

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        1. grisaille man‏ @gabereb3_ 17 Dec 2020
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          Did you conduct a survey that revealed this “big chunk?” Or just guessing?

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        2. Nice Fry Roll  🗺‏ @cjflog 17 Dec 2020
          Replying to @Aella_Girl

          For those reading the comments here—can anyone steel-man this stance? I understand why people desire this (comparative happiness), I just find the perspective foolish and I’m wondering if there’s anything I’m missing.

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        3. Richard‏ @king_of_thougts 17 Dec 2020
          Replying to @cjflog @Aella_Girl

          Probably the only justifiable reason is that in an open market they can bid up prices for everything from real estate (visible) to political influence (hard to prove, and probably unfounded in any cases but still potentially true). This has negative effects on others.

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        2. TK-421‏ @LirinNarcassan 17 Dec 2020
          Replying to @Aella_Girl

          I feel like you have a lot of conservative ideas still bouncing around in your brain. Being fed and having a house is not something we should be gracious for - those things are fundamental human rights. It is not entitlement to demand that old people do not live in destitution.

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        3. Aella‏Verified account @Aella_Girl 17 Dec 2020
          Replying to @LirinNarcassan

          They’re not fundamental human rights! Historically we had to go build our own house and hunt our own food - we had to work, put in effort, to ‘earn’ those things. Humanity didn’t pop into existence being automatically clothed and fed by god for no effort.

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