How can we be happy with less? In this piece I draw on Spinoza, k-drama and Marshall Sahlins to argue that happiness is the low-key state of sufficiency, and how it becomes increasingly more difficult to attain this.
This is very good. I think of Keynes’s idea that money is a barometer of our distrust in our own predictions about the future. Where public provision is weak, that distrust is strong, since unforeseen disasters can always strike. And you get an (unwillingly) money-obsessed society as a result.
This is very good. I think of Keynes’s idea that money is a barometer of our distrust in our own predictions about the future. Where public provision is weak, that distrust is strong, since unforeseen disasters can always strike. And you get an (unwillingly) money-obsessed society as a result.