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I’ve run this theory that the grass is no longer greener anywhere by multiple people recently and all agree. There’s no X such that moving to X feels like an unambiguous net improvement on all major fronts. It’s always sharp trade offs now. Geographic arrival fallacies are dead.
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Never go full Pareto? 🤔 Maybe that was our problem before. No place can actually bear the burden of being a Mecca for too long. Revealing that actual Mecca is a mostly uninhabited desert most of the year except for a few days during hajj
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The benefit of life being non homogenous is that on any dimension you can indeed find somewhere better. The difference today seems that it's harder to find full Pareto improvement across multiple dimensions.
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We should bring back a culture of pilgrimages. Used to be the main kind of travel. My grandparents had no travel ambitions but did have very specific pilgrimage ambitions.
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Stress no “specific shade of greener” for future headline
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The grass is greener if you are seeking a very specific shade of green. If you are optimising for an aspect of life there are places which will support that more than others.
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The past was browner, but a different shade of browner than people imagine. More hunger, more work, more bad teeth, more murder, yes, but not some constant oppression matrix. People did a lot more dancing and singing. The lawn was patchy.