tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-860344269556202513.post5299004927846863288..comments2023-11-10T13:55:50.257-06:00Comments on Lessons in Lean: How Happy Are You?Gregg Stockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01727750230435526401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-860344269556202513.post-52438616957978873412009-10-21T16:21:53.001-05:002009-10-21T16:21:53.001-05:00Dude, I don't know how to feel about this blog...Dude, I don't know how to feel about this blog. First of all, answers to "are you happy?" vary a lot according to the culture of the respondent's culture - positive outlook is also a learned thing, not just a sum of one's envinroment. The relative success and wealth of Americans compared to other nations is also discussed - does that really matter? Compare the Walkman to the iPod - 20 years, a lot of concrete improvement, but relatively the situation remains - Europeans have Nanos, rest of world listens to FM radio. In the fifties some Italians still lived in caves (or homes dug in dirt). You can find happy 3rd world citizens who own a pair of flip flops and a sheet of metal. Poor Americans are dirt rich - scrap that - poor Americans who work in or are laid off from an office are dirt rich. You also have real poor people back there, right, I acknowledge that. But if you have a keyboard to write a blog on, you're in the wealthiest 5% of the human population and you have relatively little to worry about. You have something to eat for the next 6 months and you never have had to cut on thinking about f*cking. That's the hierarchy. If you run out of money, you'll ask for some from your papa. You have never even consider giving up your Grand AM that gets you all that sweet [--insert preferred genitalia--].<br /><br />Also, I find that reducing the problems to just the work place is problematic at least. Is that really all that has changed? Work sucks and it always has. Ask your father.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-860344269556202513.post-12116076699193426382009-10-21T09:34:31.651-05:002009-10-21T09:34:31.651-05:00What is happy? Is that a state of mind, a feeling ...What is happy? Is that a state of mind, a feeling and/or something else<br /><br />Can happiness be defined?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com