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who are only capable of being happy if they have "more" than their neighbours. This is a well-documented, empirically proven fact of human life

Citation needed



i'm guessing the footnote to that comment is something like "this is how i feel, therefore this is how everyone feels".


It's a claim you see bandied around pretty often. Like most overarching generalizations about all of humanity most evidence for or against it is more accurate for a given culture than humanity.




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