I don't want sex or lambos, I just want to play video games, watch movies and shitpost on Jow Forums all day without having to work
I guess that's still hedonistic as I'll aways want better games/movies/memes, but financialy I don't need much
Hedonic treadmill
Adam Moore
Aaron Baker
Grayson Brooks
same but i want a garden too
Ryan Cooper
Fag lmao
Charles Richardson
Based
Landon Cook
If you read up on Dorsey's "lifestyle" (1x meal a day, cold showers every morning, a day of meditation a week), it's an admirable attempt to fight the treadmill.
The most intense selective pressures on our ancestors was long periods of boredom and food uncertainty/famine punctuated with periods of pleasure.
Matthew Clark
CONT
And we end up with the irony that the most committed hedonist, the lusty dog of the world, must necessarily be a stringent ascetic.*
* - excluding biological mutants and 1x weekly usage of psychedelics
Kayden Harris
do you retards literally have no virtues, hobbies, or skill ladders? Why not just kill yourself since that would be "making it' for someone who possesses none of these qualities in their life
Joshua Richardson
What does any of that have to do with natural homeostasis of happiness levels?
Benjamin Cooper
becoming a freemason and traveling between dimensions, having a family, influencing the community or world, starting a company/organization, inventing something, creating art/music, colonizing a section of a third world country, paying to be a space or ocean tourist. I havent made it but i dont understand the existential nihilism associated with people who make it, i didnt know you could be a brainlet and make it