Comment by apsurd

This is too easily a soundbite. Sounds good so people say it.

It's only true at the extreme ends though. Reliable access to food and shelter is a prerequisite so let's get that out of the way.

I do worry that "rich people problems" are in ways worse problems to have. They're sinister and they cut deep. People become utility functions. Inability to form or even understand authentic relationships. Hamster wheel of self-worth being tied to capitalistic productivity: also paradoxically management hijinks . Existential crises. Law of diminishing returns. There was a post about what the rich have access to that others don't. Takeaway was actually not much, not in physical goods at least.

Stuff like that.