Not sure what your underlying message is but when you want to spend 1 million dollars on a home in la or nyc it feels like money down the drain if you are just getting a 500sq foot studio with no kitchen.

I meant on the ecological side of it, sorry for lack of clarity.

I think almost no one has gotten that message, though I agree with it. People are (and will always be) out to get theirs. Until there are larger forces at work to steer them, I doubt this will change.

Well, if you have 3-5 children it starts to make sense

This also makes no sense, no one needs so many children, except for screwing our world up of course.

Well, children sometimes die, so you need some spares.

When spending more ecologically costs orders of magnitude less money than spending less? Hell no! Of course, that just means the ecological pricings-in have completely failed to happen.