Your brain adjusts to whatever your daily life is like being the baseline/neutral.

Even if you're a billionaire who does cocaine and has sex daily, you just get used to it.

>>81697184 (OP)
>Even if you're a billionaire who does cocaine and has sex daily, you just get used to it.
i was once told that this is why the rich are always so easily tempted into degenerate sex shit, see epstein's whole operation. they have an endless line of 10/10 women at their disposal but are sick of such monotony. scary stuff

>>81697206
same as if you goon every day, normal porn stops working

>>81697216
never goon
>never goon

>>81697184 (OP)
This is why suffering is necessary for happiness

>>81697184 (OP)
i keep thinking back on Bruce Lee's quote about being like water

Water is ever-moving, everflowing - always in a constant state of change
what the fuck does that mean, constant state of change? it makes no sense

Water comes from a higher source, like a mountain or a hill, it flows down the river below and flows again into the ocean
as a river, it sustains life for everyone and everything around it, and it can also be destructive if the river floods
same situation as water becomes part of the ocean, it now becomes a home for aquatic life, and a source of food for us on land, but again it becomes destructive in terms of floods and tsunamis

Water is ever flowing, because it has to
if the water is stagnant, it attracts diseases and those who drink from stagnant waters get sick

Do you understand any of this, anons?

>>81697184 (OP)
So the secret to happiness is to switch it up constantly? Not the harmony of apollonian civilizations like ancient Greece and China, rather the Faustian march towards ever more, ever greater things?

>You will never be happy
but I will, now, thanks to the useful information you just gave me

>>81697184 (OP)
It depends. For an NPC who would just waste money on drugs and hookers, then yes. But for people with an actual soul, billions could be put towards more enlightened purposes (I don't mean charity)

>>81697184 (OP)
>Your brain adjusts to whatever your daily life is like being the baseline/neutral.
Mostly yeah but I'm not into sex or drugs. I'd use that insane money to buy and do things that I never could as a poor person and there are so many that I doubt I'd ever get bored. I'd probably end up dying due to cave diving or driving a motorbike off a mountain or something.

happy happy

I doubt that the hedonic treadmill is that strong. There is a correlation but it's not 100%, I'm sure billionaires are still happier than hobos.

>>81697184 (OP)
you are subtilty implying that I'd get bored and depressed and will continue seeking superfluous novelties.
My factorio play time hours would beg to differ however