So… what’s the point?  We haven’t pursued quality? Perhaps he doesn’t remember how crappy his ’73 Pontiac was versus his sleek new SUV? Are Gucci and Bulgari known to be cheap stuff?

Oh, and what is “de-materialization”? Somehow the billions of yearning new middle class around the world will use less stuff?

This is the kind of intellectual claptrap that numbs the mind:  The elites of the world telling the little people that “if we could just pour less concrete”…

Sheesh, you’d think Bill Gates would be a little smarter than to traffic in this kind of rubbish!