All of life is tradeoffs. Too many people both politically and personally believe they can just opt out or negate this — which is itself a tradeoff.

A lot of unhappiness and anomie I believe extends from not recognizing that better decision-making can occur when you embrace the necessity and even freedom of using the idea of tradeoffs and marginal improvements to your advantage. Assuming, that is, that your basic needs are already taken care of.

I started pondering this as I was considering why Stoicism was not for me, and its flaws. This is a small result of that thinking.