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Originally Posted by darklord700
I agree with it somewhat. Material is experience too. Maclaren P1 is material but driving it is experience too. I don't think you can segregate material from experience too often.
Like buying a brand new 80" 4K OLED TV, it's both experience and material.
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Originally Posted by Pointman
You buy things to use them and while using them you are getting experience.
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Yeah, except the article addressed how it doesn't work like that. Over time you psychologically adapt to the experiences produced by material goods.
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“One of the enemies of happiness is adaptation,” says Dr. Thomas Gilovich, a psychology professor at Cornell University who has been studying the question of money and happiness for over two decades. “We buy things to make us happy, and we succeed. But only for a while. New things are exciting to us at first, but then we adapt to them.”
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No one on their deathbed says "Man, I'm really glad I bought that awesome TV."