I think this is more of an underaddressed mental health issue [compulsive hoarding]. I definitely don't think it's a modern problem in that people definitely ha

I think this is more of an underaddressed mental health issue [compulsive hoarding]. I definitely don't think it's a modern problem in that people definitely had compulsive hoarding issues in the past, but people were generally too poor/impoverished to be able to afford to keep much (so keeping everything you can compulsively is arguably rational behavior).