Re:Frugality Is Non-Linear (2019)
by username90 on Thursday September 24, 2020 @07:49AM
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> I'd easily take the lattes, or really any small, simple pleasure that gives me a little bit of joy each day.
That joy is mostly relative, the joy you feel drinking a latte is not greater than the joy a poor tribesman feel eating a piece of fruit. You will almost always feel it just for different things.
A good example is sweetness, if you quit eating candy you will find that much food is very sweet, and if you stop eating industry created food you will find that many vegetables and other things are actually quite sweet. So you don't lose the joy of eating sweet things, just that what you consider sweet changed.
That joy is mostly relative, the joy you feel drinking a latte is not greater than the joy a poor tribesman feel eating a piece of fruit. You will almost always feel it just for different things.
A good example is sweetness, if you quit eating candy you will find that much food is very sweet, and if you stop eating industry created food you will find that many vegetables and other things are actually quite sweet. So you don't lose the joy of eating sweet things, just that what you consider sweet changed.