Who told you that modern manufacturing produces less pollution? It may produce less of some things, but plastic and evergy use is way up in recent years. For example, a modern car has far less recyclable or recycled content than one from the 80s (more plastic, less steel).

On top of that even if we made cars (and other things) less polluting we still use xxx% more than 50 years ago.

I always use the plane engine analogy, 10 years of research gives you a 3% boost in fuel efficiency, during the same time you doubled the number of flights per day ....

> If anything, modern manufacturing uses far less than it did decades ago, with less pollution, people renting things more than wasteful owning,

I don't think we live in the same world then, we've never imported/exported so much shit, third world countries are catching up with the west in term of how they want to live (personal cars, bigger houses, more electronics), we're polluting more than ever, &c. all the metrics are going up, not down

> Life is what you make of it.

Well, yeah, exactly, but what can you make of it when you work 8 hours a day 5 days a week for the 40 best years of your life

> You can focus on yourself and you don't need to judge others

Or I can think about myself _and_ others by thinking that the world would be a much better place for everyone including myself if people didn't have to work so much for so little.

> I don't think we live in the same world then

I was referring to manufacturing per output -- e.g. per-car or per-toaster uses less energy, pollution, etc.

People consuming more or less objects total is a choice people make, not manufacturers.

The distribution is wider, more bad shit and more good things happening at the same time.