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People weren't happier, back then. Unhappy people just died faster.
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mike 1y ago

Some other possibilities:

Happiness is only relevant once you are certain of survival.

Focusing on happiness is a sign that you have reached the end of your journey (be that an individual or the state).

Happiness is a binary state in an analogue world. A good meal eaten by a starving man is equal in happiness to a private jet purchased by a freshly minted billionaire. And the happiness lasts equally as long.

Also, you are correct, decreasing mortality is the primarily cause of population growth which is due to peak in 2050 at 11 billion before starting a gradual decline.

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Laeserin 1y ago

Yeah, we're not living longer as much as we're not dying young.

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Laeserin 1y ago

And, yeah, nobody thought about being happy, back then. You just did your duty and were genuinely grateful to wake up in the morning.

Lots didn't wake up.

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Beneath The Ink 1y ago

"Happiness is a binary state in an analogue world."

-magical sentence. ✨️

There's been a fixation on happiness as if that is or should be the desired state of the populous. Happiness is and should be fleeting. It comes and goes like hunger or thirst.

~Tear swelled eyes stare wistfully at their own Smiling faces reflected off foggy mirrors.

Dreams tethered to aspirations manufacutered by corporations lie in thought. ~