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So basically... anyone who wants to do YC is doing it wrong.

Sure, if you have a stress free life you'll live longer. If you eat 30% fewer calories, you'll live longer as well.* But you'll be poor and hungry.

*Although that was a really crappy study. They excluded all the primates that died from the statistical analysis.

There're a lot of philosophies that say poor and hungrier is in some ways a happier way to live.

Perhaps there's no "wrong" way to live life, and the people who die young and the people who die old are both happy with the choices they made.

Yet perhaps many are frustrated by never having agency to make those choices in the first place.