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#657 - Erik Angner - An Economist’s Guide To A Happy Life
Modern Wisdom
The Importance of Adapting to Conditions
Having poor eyesight makes no difference to my life. I live in... Throw a pair of glasses on and now everything's razor sharp again. Technology, I can afford it, right? I have a profession that allows me to wear glasses. So for many of these conditions, having the condition doesn't doom you to low happiness. A lot is going to depend on the sort of conditions under which you live. It's a political decision to build a world that can accommodate people with poor vision, wheelchairs or whatever. Is this adaptation? Is this what's going on? Where people are becoming acclimatised to their new level of health? I think that's a serious hypothesis.
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