Happiness = Reality minus Expectation (and sadness is the negative values).

For example, if you expected your country to have checks and balances and not empower people who tried to damage the democracy, the reality would sadden you.

If you expected to be able to have 2 kids, afford healthcare, not worry about loss of income, live near family in a 2k+ sq ft home, and fly to Disneyworld and Hawaii for vacation, then chances are reality would not have met your expectations. Perhaps TV shows/movies gave you those impressions? Or seeing others' instagram posts?

But if you expected a smaller home, not eating avocados everyday, driving a few hours for your vacations, limited amounts of healthcare, etc, then maybe reality would exceed expectations for more people.

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nyeah 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Right. We just need to kill off three key unrealistic expectations: democracy, medical care, and avocados. Once we relax and give up on those three things, we'll be happy again.

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wat10000 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wonder how avocados became the poster child for unreasonably expensive food. They're not actually that costly.

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nyeah 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hard to say. They're much cheaper per pound than ground beef here in the Northeast.

	▲	lotsofpulp 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Shouldn’t protein be expected to be more expensive?

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lotsofpulp 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm in Washington, and they're usually at least $1 each in season, and even close to $2 out of season at Costco. Factor in some amount not being good, 20% at least, and I probably spend at least $1,000 per year just on avocados for a family of 4.

I imagine they are just as, if not more expensive, in places further from Mexico.

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cucumber3732842 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because all the boomers and a lot of genX grew up with them being something that was ludicrously expensive due to rapid transit costs that now no longer exist now that we know how (other than sheer speed) to keep them from spoiling between tree and grocery store and around the same time that we got good at that we lifted a ban on mexican imports.

It used to be oranges that were the luxury fruit.

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anovikov 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What the hell is wrong about avocados really? They are a cheap staple food.

	▲	cjs_ac 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The avocado meme started in Australia, where avocados are expensive due to their water requirements, and where there’s been a housing crisis for at least twenty years.