Phys.org reports:
The idea of a life lived modestly is gaining traction. Ten years ago, Samantha Weinberg, a mother of two young children, spent a year not shopping. Her aim was to reduce her environmental impact. The next year, Mark Boyle, founder of the online Freeconomy community, embarked on a life without money in order to sever his connection with it. Since then, others have joined this "Not Spending" movement.
Frugality has its limitations. Not everyone is able-bodied enough to cycle, and if we all started foraging for wild food it would deprive non-human species of nutrients and disrupt local ecosystems. While minimalism has found new converts, especially in Japan, this extreme approach is unlikely to go mainstream.
Perhaps a more realistic hope is for a steady rise in the number of people who discover that pursuing non-material riches brings greater happiness than the getting and spending of money. In fact, significant numbers of "voluntary simplifiers" have been choosing and enjoying lives of material simplicity for decades.
Have Soylentils found greater happiness through simplification?
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Saturday April 08 2017, @07:06AM (1 child)
AFAIK, the older sedating anti-depressants can cause emotional muffling from what I've heard, but the newer ones don't normally have that effect. (I know it's not a common problem with the SNRI I've been on for a decade, nor are weight gain, fatigue, loss of creativity or low libido. I'd luckily researched side-effects in the various anti-depressants shortly before my depression hit, and requested it based on that.)
(Score: 1) by purple_cobra on Wednesday April 12 2017, @08:39PM
If the newer ones did, that would certainly explain some of the stuff that happened while I was taking them (SSRIs and SNRIs) a number of years ago. Interesting. Thanks!
The only one that actually seemed to work was one that I later found out had no evidence at all that it had any effect in humans; either I'm part mouse or the placebo effect worked really well.