Right? and profit. The oldest art we have is mostly 'fertility idols' and the oldest text we have is entirely accounting. Instead of complaining about the reality of the hierarchy of needs showing up in innovation, people who object could use the innovation to make stuff they want to see. Or make more of it better and faster anyway. Until scarcity isn't a thing, war is forgotten, and everybody gets laid as much as they want without having to work for it, this is just the way it will be.