“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.”—Epicurus
When people are young, typically they have multiple such vain ideals, which infinitely exceed their available resources. So they engage in many speculative activities, even ones with exceedingly low expected rates of returns, or even activities with negative rates as humans also typically lack the perceptiveness to distinguish between, in the hopes of securing themselves their objects of desire.
When people grow old, typically their resources have grown greater, or their ideals have been reduced likewise through the course of life, or both have occurred.
“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.”—Epicurus
When people are young, typically they have multiple such vain ideals, which infinitely exceed their available resources. So they engage in many speculative activities, even ones with exceedingly low expected rates of returns, or even activities with negative rates as humans also typically lack the perceptiveness to distinguish between, in the hopes of securing themselves their objects of desire.
When people grow old, typically their resources have grown greater, or their ideals have been reduced likewise through the course of life, or both have occurred.