Desire is your voluntary mortgage of the present tranquility for a certain illusion of the future.

Evolution doesn't care whether you're happy; it only cares if you remain anxious and keep searching for resources. To make you run on the wheel like a hamster, the brain's dopamine system is designed to never be "permanently satisfied." Modern commercial civilization exploits this underlying loophole, transforming the original hunger for survival into an endless craving for consumption and status. You think you're chasing freedom, but in reality, you're just working desperately to buy those shackles that trap you even deeper.

If you must have it to be happy, then you are essentially in pain right now. True wealth is not about having more, but about wanting nothing.