Not a stretch at all to take them at their word and assume they believe it. You can’t take it personal, or let it effect you. They don’t even know you. Their opinion of you is meaningless.

If someone makes a comment like that, they deserve to have it on their record, available for everyone to see. They only make themselves look bad.

I only block or delete actual spam.
If I’m allowed to post my opinion, it seems hypocritical to censor opinions of others.

Is happy an option?

Sure! Of course!
But, the fact that some have sucess with them, doesn’t mean that they’re optimized for sucess.

Ninja Warrior obstacle courses are designed to be difficult, but with a combination of luck and skill, some are able to make it through. Enough to make all the others believe they might also.

And yet, they’re designed to keep you trying as long as possible.

Nothing really.
Until you actually have the money, you kinda can’t do anything different.

Maybe if it was a sure thing you could take a loan out against it. But in this case it’s not a sure thing.

As far as I can tell that’s all there is to our emotions in a moment by moment basis. Nothing metaphysical. No cosmic purpose or meaning. Just a function of being socially evolved creatures.

In the simplest of situations, yes, they work that way. But emotions aren’t driven solely by single experiences. In any moment there many things collectively acting on our emotions. Not all are external either. Memories of past events and surrounding contexts also effect emotions. We can also experience multiple emotions at once. All of those possibilities get woven together into a complex pattern that is our current Emotional State.

Suffering as an emotion is not purely a result of pain. In some context at some times, pain can be an important part of good emotions. And even pleasure can be source of suffering. I have a current example of the later right now. My mother died 11 months ago. I inherited a bunch of money, and no longer need to worry about my retirement. On the face of it, that’s a good thing I should be happy about. But it’s also a reminder that she’s gone. So mostly I’m sad about it. Two conflicting simultaneous emotions from a single stimulus, because of it’s complicated context.

“Experience->Emotion->Action” isn’t wrong. Just simple. Simple things layered and interacting with each other can become very complex very quickly.

You ask about their cause, then give examples of their effects? It doesn’t seem you have a clear understanding of you’re curiosity. Of course that is another emotion, so it may make sense.

SCOTTeVEST makes them

Maybe I don’t know what you’re trying to understand.
Emotions do happen. Not sure what alternative you’re thinking of.

Calling them things is only a convenient short hand. They aren’t tangible objects in any way. They’re patterns of neuron firing.

Reading your OP again. Some emotions may have a functional purpose, to guide useful behaviour, others may simply side-effects of having emotions at all. I’m not sure suffering would be one of the former. Sometimes people choose to make good of their suffering. Building character or what not. But that’s far from automatic. Often people gain nothing from suffering.

It’s just like happy, angry, sad, bored, content, nervous.
Suffering is an emotion. Nothing more complex than that.

Suffering is an emotion, a mood, a state of mind.
The stimulus is almost irrelevant.

Look at Digital Signage displays

That’s all very generically common around the world.
I was hoping for something more specific.

I honestly stopped paying attention to Ukraine 18-24 months ago.
What are the current lies and truth?

What do you mean by “tried” and “skills”?
Those “skills” you listed are full careers.
If you didn’t spend half a decade learning, studying, and practicing each one, you haven’t “tried” anything.

I’m not forceing you.
You just seem to do that on your own.

Sell the shares to your employees. Or to the government.

It kind of is simple. They have to sell stuff.
It’s up to them how to do that.

Say we tax them at 15% of US assets after the first $1B. That’ll slowly widdle them down.