To have everything you need must be very boring indeed, if not especially harmful to your health. If you had everything you need, you would not need to speak, go to work and etc which means you need not be alive. What is most important for any individual, whether they realise it or not, is to be happy, not to have money or any other thing and the only way to be happy, the only way to have lasting happiness is to form the habit of helping others selflessly, to add value to the lives of others around you any way you can as a form of getting high, the way some people get high on drugs. There is no other way to achieve happiness. Money does not bring happiness and happiness is the most important thing. Poor people, some so called, poverty stricken people often end up happier than many materially wealthy people because they help people around them in the little ways they can, when chanced or if they have the means, they sit down and make friends with old, lonely people, offer sincere advise to people without expecting reward. All these bring happiness which money can not buy. If you make people happy, you end up happy yourself whether or not you have money. Someone like Bill Gates whose foundation is committed to eradicating disease after disease on Earth is a happy person added to being the richest person in the world.


So a society should be solving problems continuously because a society with no problem to solve is dead, same with an individual. Some people are content with living from hand to mouth. So far they have enough to take care of self and family, they are okay. Some do not even intend to raise a family and will never marry, so all they need is a small income and where to earn it. They want to remain accessible to all, to be able to experience everybody in their true colors, they dont want airs, but many ignorantly look upon such people as unfortunate and poverty stricken. One man's food is another's poison. A bush man in the Kalahari desert does not and will never have thesame outlook to life as a city dweller or a company CEO and that does not mean the CEO or city dweller is better off. For all we know, the bush man might be happier, if he is doing more selfless service for others.


Balance is very important. For example, nomads can never build an advanced human civilization, only sedentary folks can do that but then a sedentary lifestyle or civilization, practiced for long enough can lead to a situation of decivilization like religion as in Christianity and Islam where adults are scared stiff of being deposited in hell fire by God. So a little to the right and a little to the left to achieve balance always. This requires the brutal and ruthless application of common sense. There is virtue in poverty or scarcity and virtue in plenty. Virtue in individualism and virtue in collectivism and etc. It is for us, it is our responsibility to strike a balance.

op, this is a complex topic you just concluded with few words.
first of all, you can't adequately define HAPPINESS. the more a below average thinking person understands that, "happiness", is not in a whimsical event but in progression the more you'll always want to be at the save sides of the divide.
you cannot always be happy all through existence
what gives you joy, can impoverish your entire generation and your grand children may never forgive your myopic perception about life.
poverty is a disease and if you can, please change your generation course.
live passionately and be rich abeg op