Why do humans always want more than what they have?

Question

Why do humans always want more than what they have?

This leads to war...death...Why is this? is it in our nature. Are we born selfish? Many are not happy even when they have everything they need. Money, love, house... I don't get it. Happiness is fleeting. Even the ones who advise us that it's within us to change our perspective, I bet they even become unhappy. We are the blind leading the blind. There is not leader. We are all sheep. If there was, he/ she would have had the power to change this world.

I always wanted to be more attractive and a lot more smarter. I wanted to be able to change the world. I can not self motivate myself.

Please comment. Something deep.

Answer 1

All living creatures want more than they have.

In fact, everything living wants more than it has. Be it animal, plant, bacteria, virus, or single-cell organism.

And every living thing will destroy competition whenever it can, and it will consume anything else that is required as sustenance. Every living thing except humans. Humans are unique in that we are the only creature with the capacity to withhold that urge.

Can you imagine humans killing their young male offspring like Lions do to stop competition for their mates, or eating their young for food like alligators. How about starving their young while keeping substenance to themselves like trees do when they block sunlight from nearby seedlings, or consuming any biological entity small than them, like single-cell organisms do.

So instead of disappointment that humans frequently act like animals, one should be impressed with the number of everyday acts where humans rise above their inherited nature. While they don't always do it, Humans are unique in thier ability to refrain from greed or selfishness. No other living thing does this voluntarily, ever.

Answer 2

What is worse then that, is the fact that the more people have, the more they want even more. There is simply no such thing as 'enough' for most people.

We evolved to want 'more' in a world where there was no such thing as 'enough'. As such, there could never evolve a mechaism that says 'enough'.

As a result, our urge to want 'enough', never stops, and rapidly becomes too, too much.

Look at the rich and famous, those who have the most, feeling entitled to even more.

Big hearted rock stars, who want us to give, while they get paid, (in perks, publicity, and often cash,) to participate. If they would each write a check for 25% of their wealth, they would still be too rich to fit thru the eye of a needle, and they would be helping more then all the rest of us combined.

I suspect the real roblem stems however from the fact that no matter how much 'stuff' people get, it never makes them as happy as they expected. Instead of evauating this, and figuring out what might really make them happy (family, friends, meaningful relations, self-respect, etc.) they keep trying to get more and more of that which does not sate them.

Meanwhile 40% of the human race does not have access to electricity, and Americans are spending thousands of dollars on kitty chemo, and doggy hip replacements.

You know what? I for have, have had more them enough.

Please, make it stop.

Answer 3

I use to be a "R.B." (born) but have since changed my ways.
I am happy with who I am. I need nothing more then that. I had the wealth, house and fame that came along with it. That which I had, did not make me happy.

I left that all behind me and am living the simple life without all the fame and glory. I am much happier since I left all the materialistic BS behind me.

I do more for humanity by being apart of them rather then a glory seeker looking for the fame of good works.

Be then done, I would rather be a part of humanity then the materialistic wealthy benefactor of some cause, just because it will make me look good.

You are correct in that I, as a human of materialistic wealth wanted more then what I had.

I wanted happiness.
To which I am on the path to obtain!

Peace & Love

Answer 4

This is a very hard question to answer. Although I have never done any research on this, I will give you the most literal answer that comes to mind. After many decades of evolution, humans that never wanted more than they got, never got anything. Take this for example: A man doesn't want more then he can get, so he only has one wife. That one wife, not wanting any more then she can get, only has one child. The man that wants more, will take more than one wife, and the wives, wanting more children, get more children. So sooner or later, the family that doesn't want more dies out, since they have a weak family line. (And plus--if every family only has one child, there is a chance of illness and disease and such killing the child, thus getting rid of the family line.), meanwhile, the family that always wants more continues on in the family line, and basically, "lives forever". If you believe in evolution, that means that there are more people in the world who want more, then those who want less (if any.), since the ones who want more are naturally atrracted to each other.

So to sum it all up, yes, it is in our nature. Since the greedy ones who want more tend to live on longer.

Answer 5

If otherwise , how do you set the standard of achievement mark the quotient of beauty ,competence etc . This is absolutely necessary .You can try to reduce the negative fall out, but cannot eradicate it . Somebody ought to win . Somebody ought to be Scarlett Johnson .

Answer 6

The hearts of men are never satisfied... As long as we get more, we want more...

Nowadays the level of wants far supersedes the level of needs.I dont think as humans concerning material things we will ever be satisfied....

Answer 7

It is human nature dear. We are brought up in a sociaty that teaches us the more we have the better we are..obviously this is not so, but we continue wanting more.

Answer 8

advertising. short & simple. their lob is to make you unhappy with what you have &believe that you cannot live without what ever it is that they are selling, no matter what the cost to the general population