Here's a short list: Spending time with your family, building your business, learning a trade, volunteering, learning to surf, hiking, learning to cook, learning to fly a quadcopter, volunteering in a soup kitchen, learning a new language.
People consume more when they are filling a void and it consumes them exacerbating their problems.
What is so wrong with that?
>>The short list of what this leads to: depression, hopelessness, addiction, dietary diseases
Do you think poor people don't fall ill? Or that when they fall ill they don't need pay hospital bills?
>> There are more meaningful pursuits.
Like? Care to give examples?