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The Importance of Happiness in Asian Culture

I think Asian American people have this tendency to want to like min-max everything. I feel like there's something about Bay Area culture and people are age that have this like mindset of if something's not efficient, it's not worthwhile or happiness you know since it's not quantifiable oftentimes doesn't fit into this equation where it's like eh you know happiness is whatever let's min-max these numbers instead. In Marxist theory a worker isn't truly happy if the work that he does isn't tangible so like a worker in like a factor just doing the same thing over and over is getting his happiness stripped away from his work. We're not people who like work in factories but as

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