The field of psychology has gone back and forth on that, but the bottom line is it's a socio-economic divide: >Only the rich can afford to have nothing, becaus

The field of psychology has gone back and forth on that, but the bottom line is it's a socio-economic divide: >Only the rich can afford to have nothing, because if they want something, they will just buy it. but for folks on the other side of that divide, as my father often said: >Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it. and the calculus of kept object vs. potential storage space is far different.