Idk about that attitude though, maybe I am lucky but I have been just a few steps above homelessness before and I still don’t consider life particularly hard, in fact for the most part I would call it fairly easy.

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Generally when someone tries to say life is or should be easy, they're selling something.

What life really is, is just complicated. If it involves very many other people anyway. We can ignore that complication if we want, sometimes suffer consequences and even blame those consequences on other people if we want. That's all very common. But that's just us controlling our own perception.

We're a very image-oriented animal, so we're very easy to fool with how things might "seem". It takes a fair bit of effort and/or training to overcome this natural temptation. Otherwise a person defaults to more animal instincts, which serve us no different than they do wild animals. Win some and lose some, more or less.

Our technology and lifestyle did not come from these instincts though. Everything we've built came from something much, much more complicated and challenging. Usually involving a lot of math, annoyingly.