In olden times, one of the routes to finding peace was you would become a monk. You are not going to buy your way to happiness, but you will buy your way out of common causes of unhappiness. Whatever it is that you deny yourself will become your new prison. If you have a desire for material comfort, it's actually going to be easier and faster to fulfil it in modern society. When you're sick, when you're down, all your other desires run away. Without the ability to get up and function, you can't turn into the desiring machine that you are. I'm in o k health, o k shape, and i've an o k diet...