• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Enough to make my life good enough that I’m a generally happy person? No. Do you know any generally happy Americans that aren’t rich?

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      3 months ago

      Your question was “what is there to be happy about?”

      And yes, I do. Quite a few.

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        3 months ago

        How many of those quite a few are going to have to make their lives in a future where the U.S. is a totalitarian corporate oligarchy and climate change is making large parts of the Earth unlivable? Because they won’t be as happy then. Even if they vote in favor of it.

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          3 months ago

          They won’t be as happy then, no.

          Still, I was responding to the original question that seemed like it was pure, unrestrained despair instead of this one focused on specific problems.

          Not everything is bad.