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by seph-reed 1893 days ago
An interesting theory from "Sapiens" is that human happiness doesn't change too much throughout macro history.

People adapt to whatever the new norm is, and sort of fall back to whatever their bio-chemical baseline is. When things are in the process of getting worse or better, it'll push them one way or another. But once it settles again, so too do they.

The point being that happiness generally has more to do with internal bio-chemistry than whatever the new norm is.