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> A lot of people have been happy with what they have since the last century. Yet, an entire science keeps it as a fundamental.

The context here is whether they would spend more if they could, and in that context very few are happy with what they got since they eagerly work hard to get more money so they can spend more money.

People would "want" more things if they were possible. "We couldn't even dream of it, but now we have it." AI will embolden our desires.

> > Ultimately our desires are impossible to satisfy because we always want more than we have.

> Is visibly false nowadays.

Counterargument: Processing power is multiple orders of magnitude higher and yet instead of tuning software to make use of it, we created more layers of convenient abstraction and thought up new use-cases that expanded in to it.

> A lot of people have been happy with what they have since the last century.

I dont see many folks riding horses or using the telegraph these days, perhaps you do?

Do Amish count?