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> You can buy a bigger and bigger house car tv stereo whatever, but it will not make you happy. Speak for yourself. There are a lot of aspects to being happy,

> You can buy a bigger and bigger house car tv stereo whatever, but it will not make you happy. Speak for yourself. There are a lot of aspects to being happy, and having to not want for things certainly helps.

BuckRogers 10mo ago
But you can do that without any money.
- Nevermark 10mo ago
  > You can buy a bigger and bigger house car tv stereo whatever > But you can do that without any money. Well... Material things can contribute to happiness, or detract. Balancing the things we spend our life on, relative to an understanding of what makes us happy, is going to be an idiosyncratic exercise. Assuming that X won't contribute to the happiness of person Y is some deep projection. There seem to be many kinds of happiness too. Would I remain happy if I lost my house? Yes. I have gone through enough ups and downs to know that. But would I feel as fulfilled? No. I have gone through enough ups and downs to know that.
  - BuckRogers 10mo ago
    Very disingenuous answer. That's not what I was responding to. I was responding to this- There are a lot of aspects to being happy, and having to not want for things certainly helps. I would give you a better answer here but it appears you thought misquoting the conversation was clever so I'll simply leave you corrected.
_heimdall 10mo ago
You will never not want for things, no matter how much you have.
- spectralista 10mo ago
  It is actually the opposite. The less things you have, the less things you will want. I even experience this with food. If I am on a strict diet for 2 weeks and then have a "cheat" meal, a previously normal meal feels like a satisfying feast. If I splurge on food for 2 weeks, even 3/4th a pizza doesn't satisfy. I just want the other 1/4th. It is really why we have so much wealth as a society but so much discontent. It is like believing there is some amount of alcohol that would satisfy the alcoholic. It just grows the desire for more while contentment is harder and harder to achieve. I am pretty sure this is just a property of the dopaminergic system.

BuckRogers 10mo ago

But you can do that without any money.

Nevermark 10mo ago
> You can buy a bigger and bigger house car tv stereo whatever > But you can do that without any money. Well... Material things can contribute to happiness, or detract. Balancing the things we spend our life on, relative to an understanding of what makes us happy, is going to be an idiosyncratic exercise. Assuming that X won't contribute to the happiness of person Y is some deep projection. There seem to be many kinds of happiness too. Would I remain happy if I lost my house? Yes. I have gone through enough ups and downs to know that. But would I feel as fulfilled? No. I have gone through enough ups and downs to know that.
- BuckRogers 10mo ago
  Very disingenuous answer. That's not what I was responding to. I was responding to this- There are a lot of aspects to being happy, and having to not want for things certainly helps. I would give you a better answer here but it appears you thought misquoting the conversation was clever so I'll simply leave you corrected.

_heimdall 10mo ago

You will never not want for things, no matter how much you have.

spectralista 10mo ago
It is actually the opposite. The less things you have, the less things you will want. I even experience this with food. If I am on a strict diet for 2 weeks and then have a "cheat" meal, a previously normal meal feels like a satisfying feast. If I splurge on food for 2 weeks, even 3/4th a pizza doesn't satisfy. I just want the other 1/4th. It is really why we have so much wealth as a society but so much discontent. It is like believing there is some amount of alcohol that would satisfy the alcoholic. It just grows the desire for more while contentment is harder and harder to achieve. I am pretty sure this is just a property of the dopaminergic system.