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Re:Is everything an MLM by seibelj on Sunday April 21, 2019 @11:19AM (#19712440)
I’d rather trust individuals to make their own purchasing decisions, and let the market experiment and figure out what is best, than reorganize society on non-market principles and let a committee determine what people should and should not want.

Research may state that no one knows what will make themselves happy, but isn’t that one of life’s challenges? Finding happiness and purpose? I don’t need an academic paper to tell me happiness is difficult to attain.

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Re:Is everything an MLM by drb91 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @12:35PM (#19712912)
> Research may state that no one knows what will make themselves happy, but isn’t that one of life’s challenges? Finding happiness and purpose?

If this involves things like burning absurd amounts of fossil fuels and shoving new phones down our throat every year, it is absolutely our shared problem that you are bad at allocating resources.

Edit: my → our shared

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Re:Is everything an MLM by petra on Sunday April 21, 2019 @12:29PM (#19712870)
>> Research may state that no one knows what will make themselves happy, but isn’t that one of life’s challenges?

Sure.

But if people don't really know what makes them happy, maybe they'll buy a lot of useless stuff ?

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