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.
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We have managed to institutionalize and massively increase chronic stress, while taking out many natural, spontaneous, acute stressors.