"the alarms that prevent you from overspending are so basic that they may even be in our DNA" "avoiding pleasure is no longer enough to protect you. It probabl

"the alarms that prevent you from overspending are so basic that they may even be in our DNA" "avoiding pleasure is no longer enough to protect you. It probably was enough to protect hunter-gatherers, and perhaps all pre-industrial societies" These feelings of wasting time and avoiding pleasure are probably more due to culture than genetics. They sound like a description of the Puritan Work Ethic.