• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You can look at people who most would consider great examples of success and still find miserable people and suicides

    Human happiness rises to about 130k USD a year. After that it is diminishing returns. You can point to all the tortured billionaires you want but there is plenty of misery in being poor.

    they either think there’s nothing more they can chase

    There must be hundreds of reachable achievements and skills the average Westerner can pursue. You want a challenge? Go learn violin. I will see you in about 12k-14k hours.