One level of the parable is around eternal gratitude. Probably the idea of gratitude didn’t cause you to stop, but catechesis in the US post WW2 was poor (to sa

One level of the parable is around eternal gratitude. Probably the idea of gratitude didn’t cause you to stop, but catechesis in the US post WW2 was poor (to say it charitably), so your response wasn’t out of the ordinary. American’s view of fairness breeds envy. Across every income level a vast majority want 10% more to be ‘happier.’ Once you have this ego death of sorts, it lets you easily step off the hedonistic treadmill, thus improving one’s life :)