Eugine_Nier comments on Is Kiryas Joel an Unhappy Place? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 24 April 2011 12:58:49AM *  1 point [-]

If you're living near Malthusian equilibrium, there's probably no smiling involved.

Yes there is. Moping around about how miserable your life is wastes resources and is in general not productive.

Comment author: Hyena 24 April 2011 01:28:41AM 5 points [-]

My mop doesn't mope but it's excellent for mopping and a smile is likewise useless on tile. There's no reason to presume that we couldn't have emotionally dead producers, there just may be no value to anything they do. But they're grandly productive.