Why do you end up spending what you earn, even if you earn a lot

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One of the premises about home economics that I often repeat is that, if we don't earn enough, saving tricks and strategies don't matter , it's a lost race. Therefore, in many cases, you have to focus on trying to improve income, to earn more.

However, that won't automatically end our problems. In that case, we will have to manage another fascinating fact in the psychology of money: that the more you earn, the more you spend .


Therefore, we are going to examine this phenomenon in depth and why it occurs. This will reveal very interesting aspects about our behavior with money.

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As is usually the case, this phenomenon is due to a series of factors that interact with each other and whose influence will be greater or lesser depending on the specific situation. Likewise, many   Cyprus Email List  do not have to do with a lack of rationality or intelligence, but with human nature , context or psychology, more powerful than we believe.



When it comes to aspects like the ones we are going to see, knowing them reduces their influence , because they become aware and we begin to recognize their patterns when they are present.

Let's start with the most important of the psychological reasons why, the more we earn, the more we spend.

The hedonistic adaptation
Hedonism makes us spend more
"If I made enough money for a slightly bigger house, I'd settle for it." We've all thought something like that and we were sincere at the time, but we never settle, because human nature doesn't work that way .

If we have money and we get that house, at first we are satisfied and, soon after, we will want more.

It is inevitable and the phenomenon is called adaptation or " hedonic wheel" , in reference to a hamster wheel from which we cannot get out.

Psychologists Brickman and Campbell defined it this way for the first time in , but it is a behavior that has always been with us. It is what allows us to go further, because no matter what we achieve, a certain dissatisfaction immediately appears that asks us if "this is all."

The next step is to try to search for more.

The practical implication for today's topic is that, by not settling and always going above and beyond, we are very likely to use the extra money to contribute to that goal of getting a little more of everything: new fun, new experiences, a better home. a little bigger again...

This psychological trait is not bad in itself, since it is what moves us to move forward and not settle in general. But when it occurs in all aspects, including the economic one, neither what we earn nor what we spend is enough for us after a while .

Except for certain disciplined humble monk mentalities, humans are like that. But the thing is, even if we are those monks, there are more reasons that will mean that the more we earn, the more we spend.