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If someone writes online about their financial/romantic/social successes or in general about how good their life is, what's the main reason you may feel negatively about it? Feel free to elaborate on the comments.
  • Envy of their fortune
    9.3%
  • Triggers own insecurity
    29.9%
  • Feels fake and insincere
    28.6%
  • Bragging is distasteful
    32.2%
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Your options focus entirely on status emotions. I mainly have a “there’s more to life than this wallowing in other-regarding cognitions” reaction. I find such people boring in the same way as Trump. There’s nothing more to their life than seeing and being seen by others.
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Also note that financial/social/romantic is the core of your idea of “good life” but is not the only possible set of goodness eigenvectors. So your question is kinda ill-posed for those who fundamentally don’t see life through that lens
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I certainly don't think those are the only things a good life is about, only the things I occasionally mention about my own life. If I could report on reaching spiritual enlightenment, changing the world, finding deep meaning, or anything else I would write about that as well :)
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This is also the answer to the poll’s question. The people who get offended are largely those who have built their identities around status and it’s associated games
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Do what makes your life possible and meaningful. Let others freely associate with you or not whether they resonate with what you’re doing. Let the signals do what they do. We’re not in a primitive condition of tribalist scarcity where they are determinants of life and death.
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