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The concept of buying only those things you can actually afford is foreign to you. You feel that a $500k home with a big screen TV and BMW in the driveway are entitlements you deserve even though you never finished college and earn about $45k/year.
Hubbert pointed out decades ago that nobody on the planet did anything at all to deposit the Earth's entire store of fossil fuels. Peasants, kings, billionaires, high school dropouts and MBAs are all equal on that account.

And he noted that next to nobody feels anything other than a sense of 'entitlement' as justification to use it up in the space of a couple of centuries, covering just a handful of human generations.

What do you suspect the toy buyer's response would be if someone asked him if the concept of only using as much energy as the sun renews in his own lifetime is also foreign?