William Chee When you don’t have something you can always look forward to getting it; when you have it, not only can you no longer look forward to getting it,but you have to safeguard losing it.

Traci K A timeless principle, and very well stated. Or, one might say, restated; _When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep._

Problem is the category language or definition of “highly successful” -. impossibly subjective, he concedes, composition of much of talk today. It means nothing, an imagined fantasy in the individual’s mind, a narrative peppered with anecdotal evidence or examples, highly imperfect measures not adequate for data analysis. Use money, a house, what you spend, your job if you must work, income stream, or ownership of property, etc., etc. Categories help humans imagine order amid randomness of all experience which is highly faulty when assumed from memory. One individual brain is not equipped to sort the information data we must navigate to live, hence we need means to create our own individual self algorithm to help us filter out the avalanche of noise - to truly become curator of self. Most algorithms exists as an attempt to sell us beliefs in systems that exist on very shaky ground (some would say nefariously fraudulent). With income inequality growing as fast as CO2 in the atmosphere, most in poverity & unable to have stable shelter & nutrition, how can we focus on happiness except for those who can buy clean air, water, soil and land that resembles what was familiarly natural in our past?