though the modern hooman can easily buy things that its ancestors struggled for, this absolute increases in quality of life absent a decreasing wealth gap actually increases unhappiness
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it is not merely a problem of envy or jealousy the steak, or doll, or pair of shoes that was struggled for? it was not the material possession that mattered but the medium as message for the expression of love
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the source of unhappiness is not the lack of stuff but the inability to capture suffering and transmute it into something meaningful
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thus oddly enough the conclusion seems to be that the missing element is masochism a prostration before an all power benevolent being that just so happens to be a sadist
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