For virtually everybody, that quiet room is not a given, but has to be acquired and maintained. How can you sit in that room and give yourself to silence if you know deep down that the silence is a temporary illusion? You have to leave that room and either defend your wealth or acquire the means to be able to return.
Additionally, the experiment doesn't measure what it wants to measure:
>people detest being made to spend six to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think
The participants hadn't chosen to sit in silence. They chose to participate in an experiment. Sitting in silence for somebody else is not the same as sitting in silence. A better setup would have been a space where sitting in silence would have been one option among many.
Sitting in silence allows your brain to change, such that back outside you are more resourceful.
If you accept that premise, the a journey begins how to guide the time in silence such that your life quality "in noise" actually benefits well from investing into silence.
Notice that this has absolutely nothing to do with finance, material wealth, neither as precondition nor as outcome.
In one experiment, kids were allowed to play all the arcade games they wanted. They played endlessly.
Another set of kids were paid to play video games for hours. Those kids cheated and were found to slack off when viewed in a hidden camera.
This is one example of why I think people are essentially anti-authoritarian.
We know it, too: According the the research, it's the electric shock.
The difference is the alignment with your desires. If somebody else tells you to sit in silence then it is most likely not the activity you would choose on your own. So you have an inner conflict which you have to handle in one way or another. Distracting yourself with some pain is an option.
For virtually everybody, that quiet room is not a given, but has to be acquired and maintained. How can you sit in that room and give yourself to silence if you know deep down that the silence is a temporary illusion? You have to leave that room and either defend your wealth or acquire the means to be able to return.
Additionally, the experiment doesn't measure what it wants to measure:
>people detest being made to spend six to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think
The participants hadn't chosen to sit in silence. They chose to participate in an experiment. Sitting in silence for somebody else is not the same as sitting in silence. A better setup would have been a space where sitting in silence would have been one option among many.