fundamentally all human growth and expansion is in order to satiate desires for dopamine and other feel good chemicals.
It's a relative cycle including what one has recently experienced, combined with observations of relative status (eg, what is your neighbor going through). This is a process whereby the only way to maintain good feelings is to incrementally consume more units of good per unit of dilution (eg time, or density). For example getting more reward experiences in succession -- this is the example of social media + video games. Another example is high fructose corn syrup sweeter per gram...
Until we can get off that treadmill we're going to be more and more consumptive (than both our previous selves, and our peers)
It's a relative cycle including what one has recently experienced, combined with observations of relative status (eg, what is your neighbor going through). This is a process whereby the only way to maintain good feelings is to incrementally consume more units of good per unit of dilution (eg time, or density). For example getting more reward experiences in succession -- this is the example of social media + video games. Another example is high fructose corn syrup sweeter per gram...
Until we can get off that treadmill we're going to be more and more consumptive (than both our previous selves, and our peers)