Gratitude and decency are the analogues to pleasure.
Gratitude is the source of joy, and decency is the source of self-esteem. Gratitude and decency are the primitives of gift exchange economies in the way utility and profit are the primitives of market economies.
A life lived with only commodities as the experience of material goods is hollow and brittle and joyless no matter how much pleasure and enviable status from the wealth of material property a person has.
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