We should actively want to embrace a process of examination, refinement, and checking what works for us in a constantly shifting set of internal and external circumstances, so we don’t get stuck blindly equating wealth with waste, standard of living with access to comfort, and quality of life with cost of life. (Unless an ultimately unfulfilling life of bourgeois insignificance, sat atop a physically and mentally incapacitating conveyor belt amid a world to which you proudly make damn all difference is actually your thing, in which case, fair thee well, but you probably want to unsubscribe).