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by onion2k 3031 days ago
Epicurus, the Greek philosopher who lived ~3000 years ago, figured out that key to happiness was having somewhere to live, friends around you, someone to have sex with, and lots of food. He summed it up in a line: "Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance." The notion that baseline happiness is equivalent to 'not destitute' really isn't modern, or American.