#6 – Jason Crawford: Does Progress Make Us Any Happier?
Arjun Khemani Podcast
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Is Happiness a Pleasure?
In the conventional sense of happiness, thinking of it like pleasure, I would say that we still aren't happier. There are different theories of what constitutes human well-being. The ideal life is not sitting in a vat being fed chemicals on an IV. If you can imagine that you could just be sitting in a bed all day with servants or maybe robots coming to take care of your every need and whim, then she basically would have reached the pinnacle of human life in her first year.
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