caffeine writes:
...are you happy because you're one of the best eight canoeists in the world, or miserable because you're last?
They are always unhappy at coming in last.
Whereas I am sitting at home saying: "Out of 7 billion people, you are 8th!"
It seems exponentially more nonsensical as they approach gold, where you have people being unhappy that they are only the 2nd fastest in the whole wide world...
"There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god." J. B. S. Haldane
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