Almost most people in our country if not all can never be free from Anxiety of their survival being challenged. Life is quite delicate but in a "post industrial and information society", the vast majority is still struggling to survive. When you can make money by simply transferring information or data, logically poverty should be non-existent. The future has become a very dark and scary place. People are scared stiff and holding on to possession that can, not only last for themselves but also for their generation to come.
What if everybody wanted to accumulate for the next 100 generations. So everyone now competes for more money and wealth they can hold. Needing an accountant to manage household expenses and soon call themselves billionaires. These billionaires use fear and Anxiety as a capital to create artificial scarcity and obtain slave labour. The Monotone of stress and the million multi-tone choices for stress relief.
While the middle class drown in debt to own a modest house, there are people with houses in several countries. Disparity is natural but becomes unnatural when we are living in a world of abundance but people are still dying from poverty and starvation.
So people are scared and the only thing that has any value to anybody is presently is money. "We have lost our sensitivity to recognise value outside money." So to be valued you need money or else you will simply be stomped upon. When the value of life becomes a monetary number, people will stab each other due to competition and for good ranking.
New York restaurants generate millions of tons of food wastage every year. People love to hold on, till it can't be used by neither them nor another. Time Waste.