A lot of people's wastefulness is a byproduct of many things, mainly how disconnected producing and consuming is along with how naive people are to the conditions people have to go through to make everything around us. No one thinks of the migrant workers harvesting corn in California to make Doritos or the indigenous people of Bolivia mining the essential minerals to make the things we're typing on now because American hegemony and mass culture doesn't like to acknowledge that. It's a shame because it's definitely possible to have better/more ethical tech or random consumer goods in a way that doesn't rely on the military intervention and genocide of other people. They're not there because they want to, we're forcing them to meet the needs of profit by selling us useless shit that we're told to buy by the constant hemorrhage of ads and social pressure. All of this violence on the planet and others, consumerism, lack of solidarity with our people, it directly ties to the profit system and it's constant need for more. Our economic position of settler-colonial imperialism reifies our culture of disregard and waste, leading to the justified feeling that we just can't do it. We can't escape it because we're in the belly of the beast.

That's why it's important to remember that fact and they're a lot of people around the world who, if given the chance, will work and fight for a more sustainable lifestyle. Anyone who doesn't will just have to get with the program, because if we ever do get to a point of global development, planning and democracy where we can discuss this topic for real, everyone who's been a victim of our violence will say no, and there's more of them than us. Luxuries simply won't be an option at that point, unless it's by some master craft-people creating what will essentially be their art.