Most people don’t want to eat their favorite meal as their only meal. But what’s the ratio? How much variety do you need to spice up your favorites?
You can say “Having a cheeseburger now and then makes you appreciate steak more” (assuming, of course, that you prefer steak to cheeseburgers). But there’s diminishing marginal returns there, right? What’s the optimal burger-to-steak ratio in your life?
Being thirsty makes you appreciate water, too. But is being dehydrated more pain than a refreshing drink is pleasure?
The Opportunity Machine 
This is one of the most interesting things I’ve read in a while!
I’ve thought about this conundrum and my personal conclusions have been that: – everyone’s got their own tolerances for pain & suffering – generally speaking, there is a direct correlation between how thirsty one is, and how satisfying that glass of water becomes – however the diminishing returns occur when we become traumatized/damaged by the pain/suffering to a point where the resulting pleasure can’t make up for it. eg, irreversible damage done to the body or mind
As far as beef goes, I’m a 50/50 guy 😃
Thanks John
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