Posted by linkadge on April 23, 2018, at 14:06:55
In reply to Re: TRIP8b inhibitors? Truly novel antidepressants. » linkadge, posted by baseball55 on April 22, 2018, at 18:22:19
>To be without a phone, computer, electricity, >indoor plumbing, transportation, in the context of >US society, represents serious deprivation and
>huge stress.I disagree. As long as people have a reliable source of food, shelter, clothing and purpose, they will tend to revert to their genetic homeostatis.
People can always look up or look down and be bummed. Again, studies on lottery winners repeatedly show no lasting effect of moving from middle class, to upper class, or upper class to upper, upper class.
I simply cluster with people of a similar socioeconomic status, so that I don't feel relative deprivation.
Again, I was raised middle class, but I am currently living lower class. I have adjusted just fine.
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