There’s nothing wrong with abundance and joy.
But being spoiled causes two real problems:
- it makes it difficult to appreciate what you have. If perfect is the standard, it’s rarely met and never exceeded.
- it leads to tantrums. Tantrums about sharing, about the lack of ‘more’ and about the endless poverty of comparison.
As a community increases in wealth, the number of spoiled citizens increases as well.
It’s often the acid that corrodes the magic that created the wealth in the first place.
Whining is a symptom, it’s rarely a cure for anything.
https://seths.blog/2024/06/what-spoiled-wrecks/