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Once people are in the position to gain from not being happy they will never be happy, "appetite comes with eating".
by cjbgkagh 3y ago
Once people are in the position to gain from not being happy they will never be happy, "appetite comes with eating".
- andruby 3y agoI don’t understand. What is this trying to say? Sorry if this is a common expression.
- cjbgkagh 3y ago[dead]
- useless_foghorn 3y ago“If you are profiting from being unhappy you will find ways and reasons to be unhappy.” I believe the idea expressed in ‘appetite comes with eating’ is that your desire to indulge in an activity is correlated (caused even) with that activity. IE skydivers will likely have a larger appetite or desire for skydiving than a layman. In a larger context I believe cjbgkagh is arguing that women can retain an advantageous position in a marriage by pretending or presenting unhappiness because exiting a marital contract would be an especially poor outcome her partner.
- cjbgkagh 3y agoIt's more of a general phenomena that I believe commonly applies to this specific case. Often there is an assumption that a demand can be satiated once met, but quite often instead the demands simply increase.