Originally Posted by tandempower

No, because I get happiness from devoting myself to doing good deeds. So I look at pricing as a cue for how abundant or scarce something is and adjust my consumption accordingly, i.e. to leave more over for others. So if the price of peanuts is low, I buy more of those with the assumption that there is more that needs to be consumed in order not to waste them; but if the price of walnuts is high, I restrict my consumption under the assumption that they are scarce and more people will have to option of buying them if I eat them less often. I am perfectly happy to live like this and I just advocate the planting of more nut trees so tree nuts will become more abundant and thus more affordable so more people can buy and eat more of them.