Whether you like my definition or not, I would argue that you are describing the difference between poverty and sufficiency. This is not wealth or achievement,

Whether you like my definition or not, I would argue that you are describing the difference between poverty and sufficiency. This is not wealth or achievement, but our system makes it easy to assume that. The churn at the bottom is intended to motivate your continued activity and striving. You are perhaps still too close to the stress of poverty to see that what you are describing is not happiness either, but something more like the removal of capitalism’s sharp rocks from your shoes.