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    While people in developing countries are now happier than in the past due to improved living standards alleviating stress, people in developed countries are less happy. Developing countries struggled with meeting basic needs in the past but economic growth has relieved stress. Meanwhile, people in developed countries have come to expect high standards of living and pursue rampant consumerism, undermining their long-term satisfaction and potentially leading to financial problems and unhappiness. The lesson is that material wealth does not necessarily equate to sustainable happiness, and people should find fulfillment through healthy activities like spending time with family and friends rather than possessions.

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    While people in developing countries are now happier than in the past due to improved living standards alleviating stress, people in developed countries are less happy. Developing countries struggled with meeting basic needs in the past but economic growth has relieved stress. Meanwhile, people in developed countries have come to expect high standards of living and pursue rampant consumerism, undermining their long-term satisfaction and potentially leading to financial problems and unhappiness. The lesson is that material wealth does not necessarily equate to sustainable happiness, and people should find fulfillment through healthy activities like spending time with family and friends rather than possessions.

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    While People in Developing Countries Are Happier in The Past

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    While people in developing countries are now happier than in the past due to improved living standards alleviating stress, people in developed countries are less happy. Developing countries struggled with meeting basic needs in the past but economic growth has relieved stress. Meanwhile, people in developed countries have come to expect high standards of living and pursue rampant consumerism, undermining their long-term satisfaction and potentially leading to financial problems and unhappiness. The lesson is that material wealth does not necessarily equate to sustainable happiness, and people should find fulfillment through healthy activities like spending time with family and friends rather than possessions.

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    While people in developing countries are happier than in the past, people in developed

    countries are less happy. Why? What can be learnt from this?
    Residents of third-world countries nowadays are happier than those living in richer ones,
    which can be attributed to materialism. There is indeed a lesson to be learnt from this: neither
    money nor possessions equate to long-term happiness.

    People in developing countries are now having better living standards; nonetheless, they
    struggled to meet basic human needs such as education and food decades ago. This can be
    observed clearly in Southeast Asian nations where wars condemned people to serious
    repercussions, causing unlimited difficulties in their lives. Thanks to tremendous economic
    progress in these places, it relieves them of the constant stress of making ends meet and
    significantly boosts their happiness levels.

    Conversely, people in developed countries, especially in Europe, already have such living
    standards—even better—for a long time. Some of these people hence seemingly assume this
    privilege as a given, leaving them unfulfilled. To find fulfillment, they tend to be nudged by
    rampant consumerism, buying elaborate costumes or expensive jewelry. They however might
    not realize that material possession is psychologically not long-term satisfaction. This mindset
    therefore gradually undermines not only their contentment but also their economic situation,
    leading to sadness or depression due to potential financial problems.

    A lesson yielded from this trend for both groups of countries’ inhabitants is material
    prosperity is not equivalent to sustainable happiness. As soon as being able to subsist on their
    lives almost effortlessly, they should not take it for granted and find other healthier sources of
    happiness such as playing sports or establishing strong rapport between friends and family. If
    anything, those inhabiting less well-off countries would experience the same situation that
    people in richer nations do.

    In conclusion, while citizens’ lives in developing countries improve greatly, consumerist


    mentality and ingratitude may contribute to the decreasing level of happiness of people in
    developed nations and should be stamped out.

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