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by loeg 2719 days ago
> For most people having something good to eat and a warm cozy place to live is already happiness. A happiness most people in the world can't afford BTW.

That last sentence isn't true. The first sentence defines a standard of extreme poverty or below[0], which is happily far less than "most people in the world" in 2019.[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World-population-in-extre...