Indeed, this is how to lose most people with your ascetic horseshit:

Well-stocked supermarkets with reasonably-priced food are such a net win for civilization. That anyone even has to say this is just…I don’t even have words for it.

Liberals debating the utility of joy is essentially the whole problem with what’s left of their ideology. That’s what’s at the base of the catastrophic collapse even if there is more to it than that.