@Yellowdog You keep using “we,” as if every human being shares your personal need for having more than they already have. This is projection.
I have a shop now, which changes things, but for many years everything I owned could fit in a single backpack. Even now, my personal belongings all fit in a single steamer trunk. I actually live in a closet in the back of my store and am perfectly content with that.
I used to know a Satanist who, once a year on Samhain, dragged everything he owned except his computer and the clothes on his back out of his home and piled it in his backyard, then set it aflame. He said it kept him from accumulating junk, and forced him to be mindful of everything he purchased, knowing that it would go up in flames within a year.
Neither of us sound like we’re driven to accumulate more than we have. While people may be conditioned by capitalism to be consumption machines, when that programming stops people will naturally return to the property-free, hierarchy-free lifestyles we knew and enjoyed for 200,000 years prior to the rise of agrarianism.