It depends how financial strong wall you have built on ground, that will determine if you will regret for increasing your needs or not op. If you are not wealthy yet, don't increase your needs because it will affect your health and other things when you don't have funds to purchase your needs that is making you healthy or looking good, but if you have different sources of income that is bring income to you everyday daily or weekly, it will help you not to regret or miss some of the needs you have purchased in the past because you have the funds to continue to have the needs.

I believe any need one can't maintain is not a need but a want. If a need should be increased it should be affordable, it's of no use increasing our needs when our source of income isn't sufficient enough to sustain it. What should be considered most is increasing our income source, by so doing it will make meeting our needs muchbmore easier and   increasing it won't become a burden or stress in the end

That is true. But if you go back to where you were, it won't be a serious problem because you already experienced it. So for me, it won't be that hard as compared to when you really haven't experienced it at all and you suddenly become a carless person. It is not that you should not increase your needs, but be conservative with your life. If you feel, you don't really need it, why get it in the first place? Just buy for example a new car if you are already financially capable and can still have extra once you acquire it. Do remember, the maintenance cost and the fuel that you will be paying for.

Such contentment of not increasing needs can be easily said than done because the values for the sustainability of those needs can never remain the with passage of time that is to say it is important and very essential that we keep creating room as a form of preparation for what is ahead of time, there is nothing wrong attempting to increase a standard of living which of course will automatically reflect what we need, those that are too comfortable with their current situation can find it very difficult in improving their life but however, everything should be done in the most appropriate way without overly being disturbed.

I agree with you OP. However, if you have improved your financial situation and you can afford to improve your standard of living, there's nothing bad about it. However, you should also consider the liability aspect of upgrading your lifestyle, if you can still continue to maintain that standard or not before upgrading to that level.

If you can maintain your new standard, there is not bad to improve your standard of living, but if you will not be able to maintain your new upgraded lifestyle, it's better that you stay the way you are, until the right time comes for improvement. You need to have a proper financial cash inflow management to know when to improve your standard of living or not.

The need to have a comfortable lifestyle cannot be compromised and at such humans needs and want are inevitable and when that comfortability is taken away they'll certainly feel the void cause in one way it has been of great importance and benefits to them. So the needs are priority cause they balance humans want.

This is largely true but not entirely. We cannot value things that we get very easily, like the example you gave, if you don't have a car, you will have a dream of buying a car, but if you buy that car and after using it for just a few days, you will no longer feel like using it like a new one, then you will be interested in buying a better brand of car. And then you may sell it and buy a new car of a better brand and at that time you will never miss your previous car. But you will miss it only if you are financially broke and for some reason you have to sell your car but you cannot buy a new car, in that case you will miss that life of yours. How you will feel after selling a hobby of yours will depend on what you sold it for.

material things will stay after we die, what we'll bring with us is our experience, our relationships, the echo of our actions and our integrity
nothing material like cars, houses and anything money can buy will come with us when we depart this world

internalizing and accepting this truth gives freedom

You need to understand that as humans we have the ability to adapt to whatever situation that we find ourselves whether it's positive or negative, eventually we will adjust to our present realities. It is easier to go from bad to good, from suffering to enjoyment or lack to abundance than it is for the opposite of everything that I just mentioned. If you have a car and enjoy driving or you are imprisoned for whatever reason, life will seem very unbearable, it will seem like you cannot survive another day without your freedom or what you love but would be surprised that after sometime you will start to adapt or get used to the new environment or condition. To adapt doesn't mean that you are comfortable in that situation but you can survive in the situation, so you can adapt in a worse situation while planing to get out of it.

I agree wit your observation but I do not agree that it's better to not increase our needs..

I don't know about you but for me and my family, I want a better and easier life, if I don't own a car today, I want to own one so as to make transporting myself and my family to different places easier, here in my country, transportion to both short and far distant places are very expensive, on a very busy day, if one has no private means of transportation, one would literally spend over 10,000 in my local currency in transporting him or her self to short distance places, while if you are going on a long journey, then budget from 40,000 to 500,000 depending on how far the journey is and also the mode of transportation, this could even get higher..

So, aside the above, like I said before, we think growth and not stagnation, it's important for humans to try new things and learn new things, get used to new way of doing things, isn't this why Bitcoin is gradually replacing fiat today?

The problem with some people is that their expenses are always more than the incoming source of income, because most people lack discipline.
Some people buy things that are not that important and that they don't really need.

That's why any of us should really know how to manage money so that it doesn't happen to us that we only have expenses instead of having money saved for the future,
you know what I mean.

Society and the media push this mentality that you must have the next best thing - a new iPhone that comes out every year or the latest game. Yet you'll often find the most success (and humble) people will be quite frugal with their spending, regardless of the few celebrities that seem to be living super rich lifestyles, they are the anomaly. Using the car example, your needs can actually change through life as well - you might move to a city with great public transport - so you always have to keep an open mind to reinventing yourself and assessing your needs in the moment. Many people could also get away with a much cheaper car but decide to upgrade, yet end up paying much more for little extra satisfaction.

The life is meant to experience great thing exceedingly while maintaining what you've acquired so far and never loose it, you'll certainly value something you loss than just having it the first time.

You increase your needs when the source of income supersede your expenses so you never fall below your means.

You will know if you can already afford other things if you are accumulating extra funds. But as much as possible, you can also invest it to other assets so you can gain passive income out of it.

yes, it is easier to adapt to life with more abundance and comfort than the opposite
that's why it is important to do hard things too so you don't stay too confortable in a state that will end up doing you more harm than good
this is many times easier said than done, but it's a proccess

remember that regardless of what you build and what you own you'll have to abandon everything in the moment you die so be ready to dettach without suffering, it's better for the soul

Your observation is absolutely relevant and accurate, because I was thinking about this too.
After I started earning more, I noticed that my girlfriend and I had expanded our needs. We began to live at a higher quality of life, and when there are periods of financial difficulties, it is absolutely impossible to lower this bar of a good standard of living.
It is a big mystery to me: how can you easily start saving again, because the needs that somehow turned out to be new have become absolutely normal today and life without them is no longer imaginable.

But if you want to be "normal" and provide your family with everything a "normal household" has, you have to pay for a lot of things on a monthly basis... Once upon a time, there were no subscriptions for the internet, television, mobile telephony & internet, and many other things. People were more relaxed and didn't have as many monthly bills as we have today. I guess that's the price of comfort that we all pay.

By the way, no one can tell you what is better, it's up to you to decide what you want & whether you can afford it.

Why not increase your needs when you have the means for that, there is nothing wrong with that and I will highly encourage it. One look for means in order to have a better life, so I don’t see anything wrong with one upgrading their standard of living when they can afford it. As you level up in your means, so will your wants also level up and make you want more than you’ve been wanting when your means was lesser.

They work in succession and this is actually how life is and it happens to everyone the same, unless you’re being selfish to yourself and not want to spend when you have the means. No one wants to have an upgraded standard of living and still fall back into living the old ways again, but in some circumstances it happens and when such happen, one just needs to adjust to that quickly once again.

Right. That is human psychology because from us many people faced poverty in the childhood and resources were less but now many liabilities are part of us . That is also like we spend time with any person then we have expectations with him and we want his time because our body require him to spend time but if we will control us for a few weeks then we will be habitual to spend life without him . There should be less spendings in life because any time we can face hard time and should be prepare for that time .Your observations are correct because I saw many people who don't travel a small distance without bike but many people have no bike and they are traveling small distance by walk . They don't need that .

Research suggests that humans tends to adapt to a new circumstances, weather positive or negative, and return to a baseline level of happiness.

Your car example illustrates this perfectly. When you first get a car, it's exciting and convenient. Overtime, you adapt to having it, and it becomes your new normal. If you lose access to the car, you might feel a sense of loss or inconvenience, even if you managed without one before.

This phnomenom applies to various aspect of life, including material possession, relationships and even experiences. The key take away is that increased needs or desire can lead to a circle of craving and dissatisfaction.