Post-Scarcity May, Paradoxically, Resemble Comfortable Poverty

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The happiest and most carefree I’ve ever been in my life was when I had almost nothing. Crucially I had everything I needed for safety and reasonable comfort, but not much else. I was in my twenties at the time living in Florida as a consequence of a series of poor life choices, which as I understand it is how most other Floridians also wound up there.