That theory goes more along the lines with abundance for needs and not wants, imho.
People are portrayed in history as having isolated interests. When you hear about people, they were a carpenter or a cobbler or a baker. These people would invest their time and money into their craft, and there was plenty of abundance. Bakers had enough with which to bake, and carpenters had enough with which to build.
Now that people are much more multifaceted (read: wasteful) in their endeavours, there is a lot of wasted, unused product and material. Things are much more openly and widely disposable than they used to be. |