I agree with you up to like 80%. We absolutely are the problem. We want produce you can't get in the winter, we want specialty fruits and crops at nearly impossible times, we want and want and want.

And so yes a lot of this current hell is a misery in our own making that we refuse to put down all the things we have collected and decided makes our existence that much better.

But also corporations are also run by people with wants and not all of those decisions are being made with consideration of what the masses want anymore but what the people at the top want. More money, more of the profit share, more cheap labor.

Yeah. Everyone wants stuff. And the masses won't accept the ideas of less easily. But it doesn't help that the top doesn't want equal or fair rules for what they want to do anymore either. So society does what the people want but it doesn't mean that there isn't also a small group doing specifically what they want with a lot more power and no fucks to give about how they do it.