• Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Spending money on activities and on community is vastly better than spending it on non essential things and I’ll die on this hill.

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      6 months ago

      You can’t act like there’s a substantial difference between the former and the later. It’s mostly a matter of opinion which things are trivialities and which things are important for happiness and community.

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        6 months ago

        People that research happiness say that experiences are more important than things and that community is also important for happiness. So there is a difference empirically.

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          6 months ago

          My point was more that there’s a lot of individual variation in terms of what things count for what category and even whether they’re enjoyable or not. You would have to pay me to go to a screamo concert. Other people would greatly enjoy the experience. Furthermore, at a certain point, you have to diversify the things you do. You can’t spend 100% of your free time strengthening your relationships, sometimes you gotta just buy some candy and eat it.