Hedonic Treadmill

“Once we get something, we just raise our standard. We say, okay, okay, I've got all that. And that's nice, but you know, if I only had, and then you fill in the blank however you want, then at last I would live happily ever after. So we're like we're like thir…”

“What I dislike about capitalism personally the most is this idea of the hedonic treadmill. You just keep running, you keep running it. If you're able to run at a 12 pace, you should be at 14.”