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Because it makes us feel safe, and it makes us feel like we’ll be happy.

I have a Master’s in Psychology, and I will always remember the disheartening feeling when I learned the most prevalent and accepted theory of what defines human happiness. Know what it is?

Comparison to others.

Very literally, the person in the tribe with the biggest mud hut is probably happier than you in your Chevrolet when your neighbor pulls up in a Cadillac.

Yes, we really are that small as a rule.

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and hence billionaires’ obsession in having more money and bigger yachts than other billionaires.

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What do you mean by the person in the tribe? Are you talking about a hypothetical tribal society and their happiness when removed from the civilized world as opposed to people in more modern communities?

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Yes. A hypothetical tribe. I’m saying happiness is completely relative, but based on comparison to immediate peers.

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And what can we do with this information, in psychology? Is there a way to shift focus away from it? Or is there something else to learn?

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Is that what makes us the most happy, or is it where we most often seek happiness? I don’t think they are the same thing. You aren’t going to find the happiest people in the world living in poverty, but I don’t think they are billionaires either.

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Comparison to others is the killer of all joy.

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