I would argue there are four prices: acquisition, usage, storage, and disposal. The middle two are (ideally?) recurrent costs and storage costs in the age of c

I would argue there are four prices: acquisition, usage, storage, and disposal. The middle two are (ideally?) recurrent costs and storage costs in the age of consumerism grow linearly throughout life. At some point, people "see the light" and start aggressively downsizing. This usually happens when storage cost vastly exceeds usage cost.