Is it true that the more you have, the happier you are?

Kayleigh 2022-11-30 02:36:39

This is an era of advanced technology and productivity, but most people live very tired and unhappy lives.

Is it true that the more you have, the happier you are? The happiness index is highest in places where the gap between the rich and the poor is small. In places where the gap between the rich and the poor is large, some poor people live in poverty and despair all their lives, while others are desperately chasing the footsteps of the rich, and finally become rich through hard work. The result? I don't feel happy, on the contrary, my desires are endless, the money is never enough to spend, and my heart is more and more empty. Life becomes twisted, chaotic and impetuous. A harmonious and healthy life is a happy life. The gap between the rich and the poor is about equal to the pressure of survival! The stress index is inversely proportional to the happiness index.

In a society with its uneven distribution, the more products are produced, that is, the more value is created, the smaller the proportion of workers in the society, that is, more for more and less for less. It also leads to the poorer and poorer working class, and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening further and further.

In this age of growing contradictions, it may be time to re-examine our society.

How to change the world? We need to mobilize everyone to bring about change. The bigwigs have the money and force, and a small group of pioneers relying on peaceful protest cannot completely change the world. Most people are so busy with their livelihoods that they have no interest in participating in reforms, so how can a consensus of the whole people be achieved? educate! Cultivate correct values ​​in education and let young people see the truth of society. Then when the next generation grows up, there will be more people to promote change, so as to gather the power of one generation to change the world. To pursue the happiness of all mankind and build a harmonious civilized society. No war, resist injustice.

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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward quotes

  • [first lines]

    opening title card: In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable, and help to change it. - Ernst Fischer

    voiceover-collage: ...deadly riots over the government's plan to avoid defaulting on its loans... is that the unemployment keeps rising, and it has to keep rising just because it has an excess supply of goods... because this is all borrowed money that our kids... and our debt is owned by banks, you know... to build a cigarette that delivers the taste and... I first learned it from my grandmother. Now my grandmother was a wonderful person. She taught me how to play the game Monopoly. She understood that the name of the game is to acquire. She would accumulate everything she could, and eventually she became the master of the board. And then she would always say the same thing to me, she'd look at me and say "One day you'll learn too play the game."

  • [last lines]

    Jacque Fresco: The in-group will do all it can to stay in power. And that's what you've got to keep in mind. They'll use the army and the navy and lies or whatever they have to use to keep in power. They're not about to give it up. Because they know of no other system that perpetuates their kind.