People tend to react reflexively negatively to people who live life on their own terms, and are often really good at locating the reason for their negativity ou

People tend to react reflexively negatively to people who live life on their own terms, and are often really good at locating the reason for their negativity outside of their own jealousy. Why do you make the choices you make in life? What template are you following, and why? Who designed your lifestyle, and why is it better than this couple's? And more importantly, how, exactly, is the standard of living of your amorphous blob of "people starving all over the world" affected more by people reusing centuries-old technology than the people fully invested in the constant churn of new commodities with an upgrade cycle of about 2 years? And why level this criticism at these people? There are currently billions of dollars of capital deployed within 5 miles of where I'm sitting in San Francisco to make the lives of the richest people on Earth marginally more comfortable. The investment decisions made by the owners of that capital have a tangible impact on the direction our civilization goes in that one person wearing a different style of clothing definitely would not. tl;dr get a grip.