Perfect emote.

If you were to revive those two and immediately tell them that a typical person needed a 1100-watt appliance just to make dinner for themself, they'd be astounded by the normalized level of opulent waste. Or that you needed another 700-watt appliance to save 5 minutes on washing the dishes. Or that we build housing so thin that we require another 1000+ watts constantly altering the indoor temperature, instead of using the sun and the ground and wood to keep it within a reasonable range. And the list goes on.

This might be a hot take but as soon as we can figure out how to trust each other enough to do things collectively in bulk and sometimes with just appropriate tech, we will have a huge leverage against the capitalists.