complaining about what they dont have, and stop watching the wealthy on tv ,and be thankful they dont live in africa with disease ridden poverty and malnutrition.
2006-10-16 08:29:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
We are actually conditioned in our brains to desire more stimuli for the same positive effect. If you hang a pretty mobile of 3 toys over a baby's crib who has never seen one before, the baby is awed, and is happy. A few weeks later, s/he gets bored, and adding mre toys helps relieve the boredom. If you hang a mobile with 6 pretty toys, however, and then take away 3, the baby is not content with 3. S/he will cry until the "missing" toys are replaced.
Our minds work the same way through life. We want something, we get it, but pretty soon it isn't enough any more. In order to break the pattern, we need to learn to truly appreciate things, and less of them. One of the most interesting measure sof success, for instance, is a person's ability to delay gratification.
Food for thought, no, when you consider the amount of advertising we get bombarded with on a constant basis? The bombardment only works until we are actually aware of its strategy.
2006-10-16 13:58:17 · answer #1 · answered by Hauntedfox 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is disease ridden, poverty and malnutrition here in America!
The people who can't accept what they have just want something better. But until they do something positive about it, nothing will change. Maybe they don't love themselves in the first place.
2006-10-16 15:32:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the sort of attitude that leads to the oppression of the masses seen in Victorian times. The factory owners got the wealth, the workers spent 18 hours a day working for a starvation wage, and got the diseases.
My dad was a bus driver, my mum an office cleaner. I'm an accountant. Should I have been forced to "know my place"?
2006-10-16 16:26:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People in the U.S. are go-getters. They have uprooted themselves to be here in the land of opportunity. My suspicion is that they have genetic breeding that causes them to want more and to try to constantly achieve new goals. The downside of this is that they complain when they can't get ahead.
Their expectations are higher than those with cultures that are slower to change.
2006-10-16 15:40:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am happy with what I have, I work everyday to make sure that my kids are happy with what they have and I am trying to teach them how to live inside your means and feel blessed with non-material things such as family and friends and thier health , but there is nothing wrong with wanting more, or not wanting to live paycheck to paycheck!!!! I hope that my kids learn young that in order to get the things that you want to need to work HARD for them. Work ethic is something that I think more parents to need work on with thier children!
2006-10-16 15:34:33 · answer #5 · answered by randyssgirl25 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would appear to be innate (or in ape) to the species. We really do live on the "Planet of the Apes" but ruled by the almost bald species of them.
2006-10-16 15:34:23 · answer #6 · answered by kellring 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just people in the United States. No one will ever be happy with what they have.
2006-10-16 15:31:40 · answer #7 · answered by yayaloyaya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You answered the question yourself - TV and other marketing strategies.
People have degrees in marketing they are geniuses, they lure us in.
2006-10-16 15:31:52 · answer #8 · answered by Jazz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YOU HAVE A GOOD POiNT, BUT SOME PEOPLE GET BORED OR FEEL THAT THEY ARE NOT ACHiEViNG ANYTHiNG&THE ONLY WAY THEY ARE MAKiNG THERE LiFE BETTER iS DOiNG SOMETHiNG TO iMPROVE YOURSELF.
2006-10-16 15:32:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree
2006-10-16 18:18:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋