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by TylerLives 168 days ago
>We live in such a capitalistic world by now, that most people’s happiness is, if they want it or not, tied to money.

This is how people feel, but that feeling has to be wrong. We know from history that people lived with much less and they were much more mentally stable than we are today. To be fair, if everyone is poor, it's probably very different than just you being poor in a rich society.