I've got impression that the author has somehow conflated adaptation to pleasure and monotonicity. Adaptation doesn't imply that people will always want more st

I've got impression that the author has somehow conflated adaptation to pleasure and monotonicity. Adaptation doesn't imply that people will always want more stuff, monotonicity [0] does. What adaptation implies is that all gains in subjective happiness are short-term gains. Hence the "treadmill" image: though striving forward, people go nowhere. Maybe I've got the wrong impression. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_preferences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_preferences