We have so much more than our forebears. But I remember the study that found 10x increase in depression since 30s in US.
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related to what i suggested yesterday: that mental health suffers as one climbs maslow's hierarchy bc physical/physiological suffering gone
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Not my experience at all. And I've done a ton of suffering and a ton of cultivation and been poor as hell while working hard.
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Mh. A lot of this stuff has more to do with acute vs. chronic stress more than Maslow.
Acute stress is good for you. Chronic stress kills.
We have managed to institutionalize and massively increase chronic stress, while taking out many natural, spontaneous, acute stressors.
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Thank you Sindre, we were talking past you
Acute stress which you /handle/ is good for you. If you don't, it isn't.
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If the lion eats you, yeah...
Most acute stressors are too small to be bad, but increase fitness. We've cut vast amounts of those as well.
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