Originally Posted by
MikeyMK
People convince themselves they need stuff, often stuff that they really don't. I wonder if that's related to an upbringing of reward by material goods.
I heard someone (Brian Tracy maybe) say that it's a reward loop created when we were children around candy. We get money from parents/grandparents and the first thing we want to do is buy candy, which creates the reward loop. Get money, buy candy, repeat.