I've observed a trend, both across my own life, and also seems to pattern match elsewhere. It's the idea that the dearer something is, the more carefully it's used, or inversely the cheaper something is the more we waste it. I've noticed it in the sense of money, "environmentalism" (green washed products get consumed more, despite using less being the better response), computing resources, publishing/printing books etc.

I am noticing that the internet makes discourse/arguments essentially "free" and seem to mostly contain garbage takes.

I also am wondering about this same trend with human lives as we break 8B and folks seem to be flippant even with lives.