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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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I think you sell yourself short a bit by kinda self-classifying as a lifestyle designer/optimizer. You’re a more interesting person than that caricature you sometimes seem to perform. The interestingness leaks past the caricature sometimes.
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