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Objective well-being is an oxymoron. You can take all the objective indicators that you want, when it comes to happiness, subjectivity trumps them. Try to convinced someone undergoing depression that he's got everything to be happy...

> Better to be Socrates dissatisfied...

That quote refers to intellectual curiosity, not material wealth.



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