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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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
