>>215855I agree. Even if you accomplish everything you ever wanted, you still get satisfaction every day from looking at a perfect home, or perfect garden, or perferct art collection, or whatever you pursued in the first place.
At some point, it can be the only thing keeping you alive. Knowing how awful, grimy, horrible and scary life can be, yet you are surrounded by all that beauty.
The carrot dangled in front of you itself becomes the goal of life. You achieve it, and then it brings you perpetual happiness.
Not everyone is constantly looking for improvements or unhappy with what they have.
Some people achieve total happiness once all their goals and biological imperatives are satisfied.
Think a 65 year old who already has several grandchildren, a large well decorated home and a pension that allows them to eat anything they want and do anything they want.
The carrots, once obtained, become the source of permanent happiness.
How unfortunate it is then, that most people only achieve this tranquility at an age like 50, 60+.
You need way too much money in this world to reach that kind of happiness as a young person.
Asceticism, stoicism and being content with little doesn't really work in a western money based society where you can literally die from cold if you don't have your finances in order.
And having to wageslave away for that shelter alone is enough to make life feel like complete shit.
In conclusion, countries with neetbucks are heaven.
Having neetbucks is the same as being born into a billionaire family where someone hands you out over a thousand dollars each month just for existing.