The bigger pizza theory

One of my friends had a theory called 'The Bigger Pizza Theory'. The basic idea of this theory is that now matter how much your income increases, you can always buy a bigger pizza to offset any extra income (you can replace the pizza with more expensive clothes, fancier car, more powerful PC, bigger house or whatever takes your fancy). This means that you are permanently stuck in a hamster wheel, chasing after money in a vain hope you could take it easier at some point. Any hope of getting a break is an illusion -when you buy the next biggest pizza, you must work even harder for the bigger one.

Looking at my outgoings now and eight years ago, as well as the number of hours in my average working day now and then, I have to admit he had a point.

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