In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product’s and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in general.
Why? Did COVID made this happen? How?
Material analysis fails specifically because it fails to take ideology into account. People are not rational and do terrible things for idiotic reasons even when it doesn’t serve their best interests, and that’s why materialism just doesn’t work.