The Laws of Suffering

All around us, people are suffering, and making others suffer.
Immaturity causes a great deal of suffering. Rest is caused by lack of scruples.
Immaturity is almost as hard to cure as lack of scruples.
Few people are interested in anything other than their own troubles.
Hierarchy of suffering is decided mostly by the importance one places on it; it is uncorrelated with actual suffering.
More mature shoulder the burdens of the less mature, sometimes willingly.
Absolute levels of well-being [or ability, looks, resources] have less to do with happiness than comparative levels
Comparison mostly reduces happiness, rarely does it increase it, even when positive.
People are inadequately motivated to be happy.
A great many people have the dough for happiness, but never bake the cake.