The root cause is humanity. You cannot "solve" this. You can only force people to do what you want as opposed to what they would want. Our frugality was not

The root cause is humanity. You cannot "solve" this. You can only force people to do what you want as opposed to what they would want. Our frugality was not a learned trait that we've simply discarded.. it was purely a consequence of our lack of technological progress and the austerity it forced on us. It's the oddest thing to me to live in this world of amazing technological progress, while openly suggesting that throwing this technology away and returning to austerity is the only viable "solution."