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		nightski on Feb 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful ... That's fair and I do not disagree. But put another way - there is a large set of emotions out there of which happy is just a single member. But for some reason it is put on this pedestal as the holy grail. Maybe it's not? But I am getting pretty OT from the article so I apologize.

JohnFen on Feb 21, 2019 [–]

I agree. I think that generally when people are using the term "happy", they really mean "lack of misery".

I think a better term in the context of this discussion is "satisfaction" over "happiness".

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