"We have an embarrassing wealth of food, technology, and luxury." But it's not this fact what, precisely, make things worse?. I mean, we live in the most pros

"We have an embarrassing wealth of food, technology, and luxury." But it's not this fact what, precisely, make things worse?. I mean, we live in the most prosperous age. The productivity increase of the last decades has been nothing short of stunning. And anyway, we have to heard that "we" can't afford health care for everybody, that "we" should work longer years, that "we" have to cut the expenses of social protections because "we" have not "enough money". Ah, the irony..