The US is a particularly strange cesspool of mixed messages. And it's pretty toxic.
The machinery in this country is driven by eternal marketing of the idea that we much eternally seek more of everything, because if the fear of scarcity wasn't eternally perpetuated corporate profits might decline and how horrible would that be? (not). Thus, the average person around is strongly discouraged from entertaining the idea that they have enough and could potentially be quite content without eternally questing for some kind of "upgrade" of everything in their lives.
Let's face it, I'm virtually "unpatriotic" for almost always buying used and thrift store... meaning that I am not "supporting" new production.