Oliver Burkeman

when people make enough money to meet their needs, they just find new things to need and new lifestyles to aspire to

for almost the whole of history, the entire point of being rich was not having to work so much.

Our days are spent trying to “get through” tasks, in order to get them “out of the way,” with the result that we live mentally in the future, waiting for when we’ll
finally get around to what really matters—and worrying