• confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    100% true. The absence of pain can feel like pleasure for a time. All senses including our emotional sense work by contrast.

    Anyone with rich friends knows that money doesn’t buy happiness. I have two friends who retired with $70 million in the bank 10 years ago. They are miserable. They spend money like mad trying to feel happy and it does not work. Meanwhile I work full time and have a fairly good salary for my area and feel happy more often than not.