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"Irrational abundance" refers to a cultural, psychological, and economic condition in which consumption patterns in modern societies exceed the boundaries of rationality. This concept emerges when individuals engage in excessive consumption beyond their actual needs, often resulting in a sense of deprivation amid material affluence. As a byproduct of capitalist economies driven by consumption-oriented growth, irrational abundance produces contradictory outcomes for both individual psychology and

Hedonic adaptation is the process by which an individual’s emotional responses to positive or negative events gradually diminish over time and return to a baseline emotional level. This concept focuses on the hedonic (emotional pleasure or distress) component of the adaptive mechanisms individuals develop at sensory and cognitive levels in response to environmental or internal changes. Hedonic adaptation can be regarded as a subtype of the broader phenomenon of adaptation, encompassing processes