I think that’s only one aspect, the other is the economics make it so you have to be extraordinary to live ordinary.

If that’s how you feel then you might have an unreasonable standard. People you might consider to be living in abject poverty might not be so downtrodden as you suspect. Even though there are extreme downsides and externalities to being relatively poor, being lonely is not one of them.

	▲	reactordev 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't think I do when the average low-income worker makes $<40k/yr but the income required to live in a 1-bedroom apartment is $58k/yr.
	▲	bluefirebrand 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> People you might consider to be living in abject poverty might not be so downtrodden as you suspect This is true, until they have a medical emergency that breaks them because they can't afford it, or the furnace in their house breaks, or they are reno-evicted by their landlord, or their car breaks down or whatever You're broadly right that money doesn't exactly buy happiness, but it does prevent or mitigate a lot of unhappiness