Status:: #🌱 Tags:: Links:: <% tp.file.cursor(4) %> # Why is overindulgence such a problem in industrialized nations [[Desire is a much stronger motivator than possession]]. In effect, even in the modern era where industrialized nations have satisfied deficiency desires, we still crave more possessions. As Anna Lembke explains in [[Dopamine Nation]], three factors work together to create a dangerous cycle of overindulgence: Your brain is fine-tuned to keep consuming pleasurable goods—and now you have an abundance of these goods and plenty of time to consume them. Lembke asserts that rising overconsumption is behind a well-documented decrease in happiness among industrialized nations, and she highlights the rise in addiction-related deaths in all age groups between 1990 and 2017.