To add to the post about planned obsolescence.. The effort to make wealth move upwards as quickly and effectively as possible without people catching on to the bullshittery has created a consumer economy who's primary byproduct is unusable waste, secondary to that is a placating effect of overt materialism.
The labour surplus is fuel, but the fire is everyone throwing their shit into the ocean as an excuse to burn more labour.
That's it my muchachos.
The thing about wealth that always bothers me is that my favorite things are unquantifiable. Nobody owns a healthy environment, but I want that more than any mansion or car. It doesn't have a price tag. I want to live in a place where everybody is housed, fed, and stitched up when they hurt themselves, but how would you order peace of mind on Amazon Prime? The dignity of not needing to monitize your hobby? How do you monitize lack of war? Clean water?
Are psychedelic experiences worthless because they're not worth money? They're some of my fondest memories - more than anything I ever bought. Turning everything into wealth and discreet items to be obtained is a plague that grays the world into awful tasks. I'm not even talking metaphorically either. You can frame the same argument in material analysis, an environmental perspective, and in terms of mental health+substance abuse.