It’s a different version of keeping up with your neighbors. Now the neighbors are on Instagram showing off their latest possession - the experience of an expensive Airbnb at an exotic location. People are sheep. That’s what we understand.
“Human minds are bullshit” - true that!
The mind will conjure up all the philosophy and logic in the world once it wants something. For many of us, the thing can be laziness - which can hold us back in the long term.