**Luxuries tend to become necessities, then spawn new obligations.** Luxuries tend to become necessities, then spawn new obligations. # Examples Farming and ranching brought about a luxurious abundance of food. That bright a population boom which cannot be sustained without farming. Thus we are not obligated to continue farming, even if the process is difficult and toilsome. **** ## Source - [[Sapiens]] ## Related - [[Enough is Hard to Recognize]] - [[Diderot Effect]]