It's an interesting idea. There is certainly a disconnect between the quality of life, and the happiness of people experiencing that quality of life. And I think maybe the disconnect is based on the promotion of ideas that suit society rather than the individual.
You look at people who just enjoy themselves, and they are often called losers, or wasting their lives, or whatever. The idea being that spending your life doing something big, like building a company is somehow good, and spending it playing video games is bad. But if you really like getting high and playing video games, you're not wasting your life at all. I think a reasonable argument could be made that becoming a doctor, doing a ton of charity work, and raising a family could be wasting your life if you would rather have been smoking pot and playing video games all along.
You look at people who just enjoy themselves, and they are often called losers, or wasting their lives, or whatever. The idea being that spending your life doing something big, like building a company is somehow good, and spending it playing video games is bad. But if you really like getting high and playing video games, you're not wasting your life at all. I think a reasonable argument could be made that becoming a doctor, doing a ton of charity work, and raising a family could be wasting your life if you would rather have been smoking pot and playing video games all along.
