A dog chasing vehicles doesn't know what it will do if it catches one. Neither does the person who's spent decades chasing money — until they finally arrive and feel the strange hollowness of a pursuit without a destination. The nervous system, it turns out, is optimized for the chase, not the having. And that might be the most unsettling thing neuroscience has confirmed about the human condition.

A dog chasing vehicles doesn't know what it will do if it catches one. Neither does the person who's spent decades chasing money — until they finally arrive and feel the strange hollowness of a pursuit without a destination. The nervous system, it turns out, is optimized for the chase, not the having. And that might be the most unsettling thing neuroscience has confirmed about the human condition.

Dinosaurs walked this earth 600 times longer than we have — and they were wiped out by a meteor, not by their own choices. We don't have that excuse. This is about greed, the broken algorithm of money, the soldier mentality, the sage within us, and why love is the only metric that has ever actually worked.