The Feelings Economy: How Modernity Traded Happiness for Comfort

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Manson argues the 19th-century challenge economy — church, civic clubs, demanding work, family obligation — was deliberately replaced by a 21st-century comfort economy of streaming, infinite scroll, pornography, and opulent home décor. The tradeoff seems like a win but isn't: comfort is the absence of pain, not the…

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