Projected or perceived legacy after passing is correlated with level of consumption while alive.
Always has and always will be. Roman Emperors, Kings etc. they got to be on coins and have monuments erected after them after their death, AND at the same time they were the person with the most conspicous consumption in the whole country while still alive.
Consumption seems like a never-ending treadmill of its own. I'm quite the foodie, but I've made peace with the fact that there will always be more restaurants out there than I can possibly hope to dine at during my lifetime. You could say the same thing about music, art, etc.
It's like Bud Fox said in the movie "Wall Street"- "How many yachts can you water-ski behind?"
Sure but it's always better to be at the frontier of consumption and if you are at the frotier then it becomes to push it forward in order to consume a revised and improved version of the stuff you like, or create something that doesn't exist but that in your mind you'd enjoy using.
Maybe you know something I don't, but consumption never did the trick for me. And believe me, I've engaged in some pretty hard-core consumption. Long-term travel, drugs and alcohol, material possessions, sex, etc. I'll grant you that all of it resulted in temporary elation, but none of it resulted in long-term contentment.
I hope you have better luck with it than I did. But I doubt my luck would change if I simply tried consuming even harder.
You have simply been alive for too long. Or are paying too much attention to the wider scope. One of the two or a combination of the two.
In countries where there is a fast turnover such as sub-saharn Africa, people don't have such problems. They get out in the morning trying to get more and they die way before they hit the wall of diminishing returns and for sure way before start wondering about the wider scope.
With regards to wondering too much about the wider scope it becomes perfectly clear that having a high IQ isn't always an advantage. You want to be the luckiest dumbass to achieve both maximum consumption and the ability to never ever start pondering concepts such as the wider scope or any of the unsolvable phylosphical questions
Projected or perceived legacy after passing is correlated with level of consumption while alive.
Always has and always will be. Roman Emperors, Kings etc. they got to be on coins and have monuments erected after them after their death, AND at the same time they were the person with the most conspicous consumption in the whole country while still alive.
Case in point: Queen Elizabeth II.