> The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger. > We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need.

You're describing consumer manipulation not an actual attribute of population.

> And so the infrastructure for thick desires has been gradually dismantled.

You're describing the consequences of inflation and manipulated market outcomes not actual desires of participants.

> The thick life doesn't scale.

This is almost entirely why we invented cities and society and put up with their consequences in our lives.

> So: bake bread.

So: stop making me pay taxes.

Maybe it's just me. I get easily irritated when I detect casual misanthropy dressed up as a "think piece."