why do people choose unhappiness?

Why do humans choose unhappiness?
Do they choose unhappiness? Few believe that we do. Do we choose unhappiness? Vices exist. Vices cause unhappiness. That is what vices are, things chosen that cause unhappiness. Injustice is a vice. We have super-giga-astronomically extreme pay injustice, pay of US$30 BILLION for a year's work, to pay of US$30 for a year's work. Women do 70% of the work and get 10% of the pay. 1% of people get 90% of world income, while doing less than 1% of the work. 99% of people get underpaid, that is, they do more work than they get paid for. If world pay was a swimming pool one metre deep with just pay, our swimming pool water is 90% up in a needle of water going up a million metres, a thousand kilometres, leaving the depth of 99% of the pool between one metre deep and a thousandth of a metre deep, 90% of the pool between a tenth and a thousandth of a metre deep, 50% of the pool between a hundredth and a thousandth of a metre deep. And money is a joker good, the joker good, good for almost all good things, so the misdistribution of it is the misdistribution of almost everything. So the misdistribution of it causes violence. And this violence is evergrowing, as people try to prevail, some to keep, others to get. And yet we are not even talking about this reality, this most glaring reality of our lives, this maximal producer of misery in our lives. We have a situation which robs 100% of people of 99.99% of natural birthright levels of peace, and we are not even talking about it, let alone doing anything about it. When the subject is raised, we let the subject drop. We are in avoidance of the subject. We are in thrall to a miserymaker. Money is also power, political power, so pay injustice is undemocracy, tyranny, slavery. We have super-giga-astronomically extreme undemocracy, tyranny, slavery, corruption. And yet we are not even talking about it. We are not even interested in it. Something within us, which is an enemy to us, tells us not to think about it, and we obey without question. Virtually everyone has absolute faith in or commmitment to the present reality of super-giga-astronomical pay injustice. Or is not examining, doubting, questioning this status quo. And can hardly be roused to think about it by the super-giga-astronomical facts. We are pursuing goals that result in super-giga-astronomical unhappiness and we are not looking at it. We are not naming it. We are not admitting it. We have thousands of years of history of increasing pay injustice, undemocracy, tyranny and slavery, violence, war and weaponry, we have in the last fifty years increased our destructive power from being able to kill 100,000 to being able to kill 6,000,000,000, 60 times over, and we are, generally, not at all alarmed by this super-acceleration of our selfdestructive power. There is not even a body of discussion of this situation among the learned, the educated, or even among the foremost, most mature thinkers. And yet this super-giga-astronomical pay injustice and consequent super-giga-astronomical, unnecessary, escalating violence and misery could be easily and gently [not wavemakingly] removed in three generations by universal distribution of large deceased estates, which would be entirely just since the private heirs have done nothing to earn that wealth, and everyone has done everything to earn that wealth. There are in history no examples of survival of individuals, nations and empires built on injustice. There are many examples of nations built on relative pay justice that have been strong and growing. The early condition of all empires have always been relative pay justice and growth. The later condition of all empires has been pay injustice and decline and fall, with accelerating violence at all levels of society. The unjust impoverishment of Germany by the Versailles Treaty caused the second world war. The relative justice of the Marshall Plan after the second world war prevented another global depression and world war. MacArthur's acts of justice in Japan, through land reforms, caused Japan to go from defeated nation with 87 firebombed cities to top nation in just fifty years. The American dream of freedom from tyranny was built on prevention of wealth concentration, which is necessarily unjust, and since that time of wisdom nothing has been done in America to prevent concentration of wealth and political power in ever-fewer hands. The emergence of gross over-wealth in the new world has been greeted with celebration. Everyone can see that, if a government causes extreme pay injustice, by, say, taking 90% of income off 90% of people and giving all that to 1%, that act will cause a very dramatic increase of violence, problems, troubles, fears, unsafety, danger, anxieties and griefs. So everyone can see the connection between pay injustice and violence. Yet everyone chooses unhappiness. Why? People know that money is power, and yet they sit by while a few accumulate unlimited power and use that power to foment war. People think of themselves as patriotic while they allow unlimited accumulation of pay injustice which always destroys states. 99% of people are net losers by pay injustice. And yet they do nothing to limit fortunes to justice. They know that individual contribution to the social pool of wealth is necessarily limited, and yet they allow unlimited fortunes. They know that payment for having studied is double payment for the work of studying, for which the students have been paid while studying [students do not live on air], and they know that this payment for having studied makes many costs greater for them, but they do nothing to limit pay to justice. They know that paying people for having natural gifts is paying the person for things that nature has done, that the person has not done, but they allow it, although they must pay for this payment for nothing the person has done. People know that in general everyone works, more or less equally, and that, on the other hand, pay per unit of work is super-extreme, and causes super-extreme and escalating violence, and yet they do not seek means of advancing justice, peace, safety, freedom. Do people love slavery, danger, death, sadness, anxiety, grief, labour of rebuilding what is destroyed by war and crime, the labour of fighting for justice in the courts against the great tide of injustice, of super-inequality of power? People know that overpay cannot add to happiness, because they know that fairpay satisfies all but the teenytiniest of desires, they know that fairpay satisfies all needs, all desires right down to doll's furniture for a child. People know that, however great the house or boat, the rich can only sit in one chair, sleep in one bed, eat one meal per mealtime, drink as much, make love as often, love their children as much, as the fairpaid. People know that overpay adds greatly to danger, because they know that the attacks on piles of wealth are proportional to the size of the pile, and they know the vast numbers of the wealthy and powerful who have struggled desperately all their lives to maintain their position, and the vast numbers of the wealthy and powerful who have fallen to attacks, by conquest, assassination, takeovers, backstabbing, golddigging, etc. They know that every plutocracy in history has been destroyed. They know that there are many wideopen legal thefts in our social systems. They know that there is no limitation of profits to fairpay for owners' labour. They know that it is the easiest thing in the world for a company to get $11 for something containing $10 of labour in the making and providing. They know that the workinput value of two things exchanged cannnot be equal and so transaction must produce an endlessly stretching bell curve of overpayment and underpayment, of transference of wealth from earners to nonearners. They know that sellers puff prices and shrink costs, and that this is necessarily theft. They know that there are many situations of payment for scarcity, which is payment for absence. They know that new technology is a situation of large demand and small supply, allowing prices to freely exceed total costs. They know that capital gains are payment to stockowners and landowners of the infrastructure labour of the whole community, in proportion to the size of their holdings. They know that no one can work more than about 50% longer hours than the average. They know that about 50% of people even in the first world have net negative estates. They know that revolutions happen when the middle class are impoverished. They know that people generally retaliate injury. They know underpay is the greatest injury, the joker-injury, the biggest no-joke injury. They know that if you have 1000 sweets and 100 children and a gamerule to grab from the pool and from each other, you will have scratched faces and tears, and no end to grabbing and being grabbed from, and an end to friendship. They know that if one person grabs the possessions of a thousand that the thousand will be unhappier and the one will be unhappier, with merely more goods than he can use, and with a thousand enemies. They know that there are people increasing their fortune by up to US$100 million per day. They know that 1% of working people are starving to death each year. They know that another 1% of humanity is being killed by violence each year, and another 5% being seriously injured by violence each year. They know that one million girls are being sold into sexual slavery each year, and that this causes profound bitterness and hatred. They know that two million people are going blind for lack of 4c of vitamin a per year, which is reducing productivity, and increasing the workburden on others. They know that people resent underpay and slavery. They know that Sicilian poverty created a powerful will to rise and conquer that now dominates America. They know that every poverty is creating personalities to conquer their way to the top of the heap. They know that every family working average hard earns and would be paid US$100,000 a year with justice, and that this would mean ten times as many scientists, ten times as fast progress, a hundredth of the violence and trouble. They know that egalitarian Scandinavia has 2% defense costs and a relatively stable happy safe society, and that Middle East has superpoverty and wealth, and spends around 50% of GNP on defense. So why do people not save themselves from the miseries of overpay and of underpay? Why are they unalarmed, and why do they just watch, or not watch, without comment or thought, as pay injustice, violence and misery accelerate freely from the present super-giga-astronomical levels to infinity or nuclear winter? Is there a profound and overriding resentment of physical existence? Is there at bottom of human nature a yearning to return to formless being, a longing to be 'blown to fook'? Or are people fundamentally driven by a desire to be super-punished? Is there an immense yet hidden selfhate that refuses to allow the self to have happiness? Or is it that people are being manipulated by powerful internal forces that seek everyone's destruction, that cut people off from their own sense, that plant confusion and misconception in human minds? No one is even contemplating this super-giga-astronomical conundrum of human nature. There is not even a small body of philosophers engaged in the study of this mightiest of questions, this question that super-giga-astronomically screams over everything human.