> more than a few times in their life Whereas now we have the complete opposite problem, we're inundated by (much) lesser variants of these things to the point

> more than a few times in their life Whereas now we have the complete opposite problem, we're inundated by (much) lesser variants of these things to the point of saturation, addiction, and emotional depletion. I'm not sure either one of the extremes is particularly desirable, nor how acknowledging issues that mass-market consumerist societies currently visibly suffer from makes one a Luddite.