On: Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness

[bko]

Happiness does not mean good and fulfilling.

Having a family is hard. For instance, people with children are consistently less "happy" than their childless peers, yet many choose to have children knowing that. If you optimize for happiness you may be optimizing for selfish empty shallow existence. I'm sure you can take a drug to make you "happy" but that seems foolish.

[aylmao → bko]

> Happiness does not mean good and fulfilling.

it does

[bko → aylmao]

Happiness in it of itself is not good. An addict might be "happy" in the throws of his addiction. It's not "good"

And it's certainly not fulfilling. It's typically surface level feeling of satisfaction. Were happy playing mindless videogames

But I guess everyone is entitled to their own definition

[buttercraft → bko]

Yeah, I also think you're mixing up pleasure and happiness.