The rich is often unhappier as compared to the poor. Why are rich people unhappy?
Because the rich has achieved something, and the poor hasn't. So how does this work? Success is inversely proportional to happiness?
Yes, because the qualities to attain "absolute/objective success" i.e. an achievement that everyone unanimously applaud without much contention, could potentially make a person unhappy.
The upward climb is difficult, not just due to gravity. Heaps of stuff fall from the top, and to climb higher means you have to suffer more trash, more knocks, gain better agility to climb, tolerate the feeling of being sandwiched.
You need the drive to climb. And this drive to climb usually comes from dissatisfaction with status quo. This discontentment might potentially lead to a person achieving and achieving but never feeling satisfied. Or happy.
Or worse, the person might forget to enjoy his/her achievements, which is exactly what makes a person miserable.
Happiness is enjoying what you have. If you can't, then you will never be happy.
