The struggle is the sign of the unique existence we have. If struggle goes away everything goes with it. We are rare in the known universe because we can struggle, to whatever little extent but we have control on our fate, unlike innumerable other things in the universe who have fully surrendered to their fate and float dead in the eternal darkness, to god knows whose will.
The problem is of having highly sophisticated tool to struggle. In our case our brain. It must be kept busy. Once basics are taken care of you can't switch it off and put it aside, it demands engagement, and starts projecting frivolities as importants and leads people like us in to them. More automated your tools are more the danger that they will take you over. Our brain runs on the fuel of dissatisfaction, made from the mix to envy, greed, and all the others of the seven sins. Hunger uses them to hunt but also keeps them on leash; but once hunger goes to rest they run amok, forgetting that they are means, not the end.
Other livings, like animals, do not have this problem. Their brains also rest when their hunger rests.
-Pulastye
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