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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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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We use our muscles/skeletons less, we have air conditioning, we overmedicate.
Distinct from making world safer, which is prbly a good thing.
even endurance stuff is fairly short term. Had an arg w/someone who thought more was always better. Not even close.
elite athletes won't train more than 20 hours a week. Often quite a lot less.