Real happiness 2

How much is your happiness worth to me? Everything!
If feels fine when we can satisfy our own basic needs, and we can call this feeling happiness if we like. But if the only happiness we can find is the one we experience directly ourselves, we will not find much of it.
It is essential that the basic needs are satisfied for all. That is not questioned. The questions is if happiness is something more.
If we accept that happiness is valuable, and that the happiness of all is valuable, we have an enormous source of happiness. All six billion human beings and the innumerable number of other sentient beings can contribute to the totality of happiness.
And this totality of happiness can be understood and experienced by us as individuals. Our happiness can thus be enormous.
If we only see happiness as something experienced by ourselves, we easily accept the unhappiness of others as a natural thing. Historically the suffering of the many for the enjoyment of the few has taken place in most nations and cultures.
Partly this was caused by sheer poverty, but partly it was due to the preconception that the self, the me, was the experiencer of happiness.