Anecdotally, I've been thinking about this. "Being needed" is can also be looked at as "having a sense of purpose". Today, the only "Sense of purpose" is wealt

Anecdotally, I've been thinking about this. "Being needed" is can also be looked at as "having a sense of purpose". Today, the only "Sense of purpose" is wealth accumulation and debt reduction. There is very little we can do with: - Family (marriages, divorces are way too high)..not permanent - Community (everyone lives in distant houses and neighbors change frequently)..not permanent - Kids (nobody can afford one), parents (either divorced, separated or in an old-age home)--not permanent - Friends (too little time to socialize, too much competition, competing with the Joneses, too much changing locations, hard to make new ones)...not permanent There is very little satisfaction in fighting for the above because NO effort to above leads to PERMANENT satisfaction (except maybe wealth). Therefore, demotivating any real sense of purpose for anything besides digits on your online accounts...which really isn't the same as "being needed".