[whitepill] the hedonic treadmill

[WizardofSoda]

You think if you get what you want, that you would be happy? Happiness is but one emotion and the more of it you get, the more the receptors burn out.. and you will experience all your emotions, that is the nature of the world.

The less good things that happen to you, the more the intensity of pleasure when something good happens to you..(even if for Chad that small good thing wouldn't even register on his burnt out receptors)

Rich people aren't any more happy than poor people. Its only poor people who are jealous because they think their life would be one of ecstasy if they had a bigger house. Ya for a few days or maybe a few weeks they'd feel amazing with that bigger house, and then they would pay the price on the other side of feeling their other emotions that don't feel so good. Its the yin and yang, it cannot be overcome. If it could drug users would be rocking it feeling high all the time, with no downside.

 

[gigacel123]

Sounds like cope to me. I would love to be wealthy and afford good copes like a state of the art PC and VR and lots of cool shit.

 

[WizardofSoda]

Sounds like cope to me. I would love to be wealthy and afford good copes like a state of the art PC and VR and lots of cool shit.

Ya because then you think you would be happy all the time. In reality you'd be loving it for a few weeks, and then it would wear off, and then take some time for your happy receptors to regenerate to full again.

I've observed wealthy people and I've observed poor people, and there is no difference in happiness.

My observations were confirmed by large scale studies done in Europe, where they found after people have enough food to eat, and a place to live, there was no increase in happiness no matter how much money people had.

Of course some individuals are more upbeat or more anxious or more plotting, etc.. by their personalities, but as a statistical average there was no difference. And a person who is more anxious by nature doesn't become less anxious when their situation changes. Their mind just dwells on other things to be anxious about when their situation changes.

I know Chads too from my STEMcel company i work at. They don't seem particularly more happy than incels who work there. But jealousy i believe comes because people who don't have a Stacey wife imagine how awesome it would be fucking her. What they are not understanding though is yes for a time it would be epic fucking that Stacey wife, but then it would become the 'normal' for them.

Sort of like how Beckies have no interest in fucking normies even though they could any time they want.. after the Becky has been railed by a few Chads.

Meanwhile you and me we would be in seventh heaven fucking a 4/10 woman. (for a time until it became normal for us)

 

[Hector Barbossa]

Ya because then you think you would be happy all the time. In reality you'd be loving it for a few weeks, and then it would wear off, and then take some time for your happy receptors to regenerate to full again.

I've observed wealthy people and I've observed poor people, and there is no difference in happiness.

My observations were confirmed by large scale studies done in Europe, where they found after people have enough food to eat, and a place to live, there was no increase in happiness no matter how much money people had.

Of course some individuals are more upbeat or more anxious or more plotting, etc.. by their personalities, but as a statistical average there was no difference. And a person who is more anxious by nature doesn't become less anxious when their situation changes. Their mind just dwells on other things to be anxious about when their situation changes.

I know Chads too from my STEMcel company i work at. They don't seem particularly more happy than incels who work there. But jealousy i believe comes because people who don't have a Stacey wife imagine how awesome it would be fucking her. What they are not understanding though is yes for a time it would be epic fucking that Stacey wife, but then it would become the 'normal' for them.

Sort of like how Beckies have no interest in fucking normies even though they could any time they want.. after the Becky has been railed by a few Chads.

Meanwhile you and me we would be in seventh heaven fucking a 4/10 woman. (for a time until it became normal for us)

These are high IQ observations. It's the reason why normies say that "sex isn't a big deal" or "having a relationship isn't as glamorous as it seems or like how it is in the movies". It may seem unbelievable or insulting to us, but to them it's just their everyday life, and everyday life can get boring or even tiresome.

I remember seeing a thread a while ago about how humans are not wired to be constantly happy/content. I tend to agree - the negative emotions due to not having something far exceed the positive emotions from having something long term, unfortunately. We are designed to be constantly chasing the next rung of the ladder - that's why hope is such a hard thing to get rid of, too.

At the same time, when something becomes normal, the negative aspects of that thing become more apparent as the positive aspects just become something that you expect. So it's like we're all feeling like "the grass is greener on the other side" - some normies want to be single because their gf is too clingy/controlling/insane or because they're wasting too much money on dates/children/useless shit for their gf, while we want a relationship because we are lonely/deprived of touch/etc.

A lot of what you're saying makes sense logically, but it's emotionally unsatisfying.

 

[Iwanttolive]

These are high IQ observations. It's the reason why normies say that "sex isn't a big deal" or "having a relationship isn't as glamorous as it seems or like how it is in the movies". It may seem unbelievable or insulting to us, but to them it's just their everyday life, and everyday life can get boring or even tiresome.

I remember seeing a thread a while ago about how humans are not wired to be constantly happy/content. I tend to agree - the negative emotions due to not having something far exceed the positive emotions from having something long term, unfortunately. We are designed to be constantly chasing the next rung of the ladder - that's why hope is such a hard thing to get rid of, too.

At the same time, when something becomes normal, the negative aspects of that thing become more apparent as the positive aspects just become something that you expect. So it's like we're all feeling like "the grass is greener on the other side" - some normies want to be single because their gf is too clingy/controlling/insane or because they're wasting too much money on dates/children/useless shit for their gf, while we want a relationship because we are lonely/deprived of touch/etc.

A lot of what you're saying makes sense logically, but it's emotionally unsatisfying.

 

[curryboy420]

Yeah you can fuck off. My life is much better now with a GTX 980 and primo weed to smoke every day. If I was poor it would be back to raging at the rich bastards around me. So you can shut the fuck up I won't believe your trash until you go live in a slum in Mumbai and then hold the same attitude after you bathe and drink the same shitwater on the streetside.