Theory: different negative emotions are optimal for different kinds of economic productivity. Unhappiness is best for a laboring society...
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...a productive laborer is one trying to go from unhappy to happy. But this isn't optimal for an economy based on creative productivity...
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...for a creative (maker) economy, the optimal emotion is aesthetic dissatisfaction. Dissatisfied --> satisfied instead of unhappy --> happy
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...I'd argue though, that the creative/making economy is actually ending, not beginning. The apparent boom is actually the commoditization..
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