Desired RAM for Computer

I'm not sure if I'm in the right forum, but I’m wondering if someone can help me understand. When I bought my laptop, it was the laptop for my line of work and there were two ram options – 4 and 6GB. I bought the 6GB. That was 3 years ago. I’m now hearing things that lead me to believe I don’t have enough ram. That would make sense with the high usage alerts and occasional slow response times I’ll get.
I’m now learning that a graphic designer needs at least 8GB, preferably 16GB of ram on their computer. My question is – why? When I look up the system requirements for Photoshop, it only requires 1GB of ram, same with InDesign. The internet probably much, much less. The standard programs I’ll have open at the same time are Photoshop, InDesign and the internet. However, even if Photoshop if the only program open at that time, I might still get high usage alerts. I do realize that Windows 7 uses some ram too, but I’m still having a hard time understanding the logic behind 16GB ram. I don’t want to buy and install tons of extra ram just to do it. I want/need to understand why I’m doing it.

More RAM is better.
Much more is much better.
Photoshop stores not only the document you're editing, but also history states, cache levels, and other maintenance data. Plus certain operations need extra RAM for intermediate work products (Content Aware Fill is a good example).
The larger (pixel count) images you work with, the more the RAM needs multiply out. Use a deep data format and RAM needs double.
If I were building a brand new workstation today I would prefer 48 GB of RAM, though realistically 24 GB would probably be "enough" as long as a really fast scratch volume is available.
My current workstation has 16 GB of RAM. I usually work with 10 megapixel photos in 16 bits/channel, and sometimes I stitch several together. I use every bit of the 16 GB and quite a bit of scratch space.
-Noel

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