These thoughts might inspire positive change in fields like economics, where people’s desires are taken to be “given in advance”
Their framework involves setting up a system that optimizes utility, given desires (as the fixed input data).
But rather the desires are adaptive to the world / how things are achieved.
Parents try don’t satisfy children’s desires because they don’t have the right desires. The desires are formed on the reflection of prior experience (knowing what to want, how to achieve it).
The story of the formation of the desire is required towards understanding what it means to satsify it.