Comment: To Solve The Climate Crisis, We Need to Live in a Less Material World / How can we achieve a less material-based culture? One suggestion is to increase taxes on resource extraction while lowering taxes on human labour #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

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1. Folk are getting less materialistic over time… but it’s a generational shift driven by accurate but lower expectations related to economic success.

   Boomer expected a single family home and multiple cars and comfortable retirement.
   GenX similar but a bit less, not at much comfort but similar goals.
   Most millennials can’t afford their own home and things like a pension are not on the radar anymore. Fewer cars etc. I think a lot of millenials doubt if they will ever retire.
   Gen Z is having a much harder time than millenials. Often they can’t even afford rent and fear homelessness.

   Material goals are shifting as the richest folks and the largest corporations capture ever more of the wealth. That will lead to less materialistic lifestyles, but it’s a process that takes a long time, and the richest folks are still living the lives of kings.