[PancakeBrah]

To a certain point you're a capped, in terms of you 'decimal place' of happiness. Yeah, there are exceptions. But for 99%+ of people your genetics, life experience, and attitude are going to place you within a percentile, no matter how much you want something. And yeah, the point of my whole spiel was I would probably trade places with my friend. Not specifically, but circumstantially with the personally happy aspect. I know I'm a relatively intelligent person, probably above average. But I see people I know who are perfectly happy, unstressed, in menial or 'below-middle-class' jobs and I feel pangs of jealousy. Idk. Yeah, a billionaire who's happy has a happiness that is exponentially better than some scrub working a factory job who's just as happy. And maybe it's the lazy in me taking this position but, really, if we're playing odds, I'll take general happiness in mediocrity over striving for an extra percentile of happiness at the expense of time spent unhappy. Or whatever. I'm just generally dour so my arguments are almost not worth positing.

I mean, is someone with a yacht so much more happy than someone who doesn't care about having a yacht, but is also just as happy? Idk.