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Why Spending Money on Others Feels Better

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Buying yourself another useless gadget provides a pathetic, fleeting thrill. Throwing that exact same cash at a friend or completely random stranger actively hijacks your internal reward system, flooding you with a deep, smug sense of profound satisfaction that retail therapy could never genuinely match.

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