Why Does it Feel So Good to Buy Things?

Why does it feel so good to buy things? It feels good to buy things because it fills our ego. We are made of egoistic desires to enjoy through acquiring, buying, and receiving, and when we bring desirable things closer to ourselves in such ways, our egos enjoy for short periods of time. The fulfillment is short-lived because our ego is interchangeable. It behaves like a taxi meter. The wheel keeps turning, and our satisfaction diminishes with every passing second. And what happens after the enjoyment fades away? We then need to work again in order to buy again. Our entire lives then look like an endless cycle of working and buying, working and buying, ad nauseam, and we never remain satisfied. We cannot stop this process because our ego constantly grows. We always move away from a prior state where we have felt some fulfillment and enter into a feeling of emptiness and lack, and this lack forces us to seek fulfillment once again. Moreover, since our ego constantly grows, the
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