You speak truly. People turn to materialistic things looking to boost their happiness, but constantly wanting more brings unhappiness as the next best thing comes along and the person is then unhappy with their old thing. Consumerism.

There's happy people out there, and the truly happy ones are content with their life, have no need to continually seek and attain more things and are comfortable with who they are. Just my opinion.

Your last paragraph...Exactly!