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?
In life, you don't remain the same; you grow, and by the time you grow past where you used to be, it will be a stage where you won't find it comfortable to come back. It doesn't even make sense to remain the same in life, let alone talk about going back to a previous stage. If we look at this in terms of financial state, it is very easy to manage the amount of money you have now, but if more money comes in, it means the demands increase. If one fails to improve their financial life and falls back to the financial state where they used to be, it typically seems difficult because there are already more demands.