I have observed that if you increase your needs, the new 'increased need state' becomes your new norm after a while. For example, if you didn't have car before but then you purchase it, use it regularly and then when you don't have it anymore — you'll miss your car, you'll feel like you can't live without it even though you managed to live without it before.
Do you agree with this observation? Would you agree that it's better to not increase your needs in first place?
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.