• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      That the US is still on the list at all

      Headline news -> US is on the 2024 World Happiness Report

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      6 months ago

      So there’s really NOTHING that gives you joy? Friends? Family? Hobbies? Pets? A local park or museum? Games you play? Shows you go to? Something you volunteer for or see other people volunteering for? Etc?

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        6 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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          6 months ago

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

          And yes, I do. Quite a few.

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            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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              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.