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Does a life of simplicity lead to more happiness than a life of luxury?

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  The pursuit of luxury comes from the belief that “If I will have this and this, I will be happy”. When the luxury finally comes, the previous belief is most likely to not become fulfilled, and thus the material chase begins, a chase meant to further reinforce ourselves from the eventual subconscious understanding that “this and this doesn’t really make me happy after all, and thus I have wasted a lot of time from my life, getting things that didn’t really made me any happier”. Pursuing simplicity is based on the belief that “I don’t need this and that to be happy; I can be happy without them”. Hence, the pursuit of simplicity is not necessarily for the sake of simplicity itself, but rather for the sake of mental independence or emotional independence from external criteria to determine our feelings, or from the belief that external criteria always determine our feelings. Therefore, a life of simplicity by itself, without the matching mindset to that lifestyle, won’t necessarily make