So how do I accept that other people need my money more without giving up on being happy myself?
The 1946 essay Economics in One Lesson talks about the rippling outcome of all economic choices. See also this zen story from antiquity. Finally, spoken somewhere between antiquity and 1946 is this true statement: “Ye have the poor always with you.” Unhappiness over things you cannot control or influence is without profit.
“But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”—what, they were already reading Overcoming Bias back then? :-)
The 1946 essay Economics in One Lesson talks about the rippling outcome of all economic choices. See also this zen story from antiquity. Finally, spoken somewhere between antiquity and 1946 is this true statement: “Ye have the poor always with you.” Unhappiness over things you cannot control or influence is without profit.
Well yes but we’re talking about unhappiness over things we can control and influence.
“But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”—what, they were already reading Overcoming Bias back then? :-)