Are We Doomed to Dissatisfaction?

People always feel down and out if they see others doing better than themselves. People compare themselves mainly to other people they encounter in their own life. Most people are not quite as prone to torment yourself with the envy of the rich as you might think, otherwise there wouldn't be as much of a happy market for watching all those tales of the rich and famous. Those are like fairy tales that people hope will come true, but they don't actually hurt people's feelings. What hurts is if in their day to day lives, they feel stuck... If they can't live the way that their parents did, or that they expected to do ten, twenty years ago, and they've been working hard