12-1e4 Nothing is objectively and independently good

It is just better (or worse) in light of something else.

Related:

• On expectation
  • 5-2a Check your growth rate of expectations vs circumstances. The former is hard to measure. But remember - you get what you measure.
• On unobserved universes
  • 13-1a3.1 The concept of cost must evoke the multiverse
    • 13-1a3.0 Return is about how much, when you expect to get it, how sure you are—in comparison with other possible returns
• 2-1a1a3d ‘Relative satisfaction (or misery) tendencies’ - Your average five is important, and you can spend time with the best of the best with internet
• 3-1a4b2b What is smart at one price is dumb at another
• 4-1a4b2b3 Time will tell because time can de-contextualize seeming necessities
  • Or physical distance—what appears beautiful at distance may not so up close
• 10-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the society