hedonic treadmill
1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 2, 2021 by William Irvine · across every show →
Everything said about hedonic treadmill, oldest first
Nov 2, 2021
Irvine: Humans continually raise standards upon acquiring desires, chasing happiness like mirages
“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…”