These past few decades, there's been an ongoing cultural transition from "reach happiness by buying things" to "reach happiness by buying experiences". The mass market interpretation of the new trend seems almost just as superficial, consumerist, and bad for the planet as before
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But for this cultural shift to happen, someone needs to be telling this story. At scale. In our world, cultural narratives are told by brands, mainly. Which is why the answer is always "buy X to be happy and fulfilled".
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Eastern culture is slowly but gradually adopting materialistic western life. May be we can pole shifts.
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Maybe not directly. It's been difficult so far to determine what leads to increases in human happiness, but there are a few well established ones. Health, safety, security, and now 'spare time'. All of these things can be bought more or less. https://www.pnas.org/content/114/32/8523 …
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This is true after about $100k/yr below that money really does buy happiness.
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Nothing can procure happiness except of realizing that nothing can procure happiness.
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