I wouldn't say the materialism is due to others having more resources. It's a mindset. If society wasn't overly materialistic, they wouldn't unnecessarily be upgrading their iPhones every 12 months, and in turn, Apple wouldn't be working on annual release cycles, which are incremental at best and solely profit driven. There is nothing a new iPhone can do that a 5 year old iPhone can't, other than perhaps artificial software limitations imposed by apple to sell more hardware. Same goes for new cars and other status symbols. It's not just apple, most businesses have adopted this cycle, rarely building products that last to encourage more spending for small iterations.
The system feeds itself, elevating people to gain enormous wealth which will never make its way back into hands of the average person without the goal of trying to extract even more from those investments. And that wealth is then protected and hoarded to appease shareholders and such, with regulation seemingly always benefitting those with all the wealth.
I wouldn't advocate for taking that wealth back, although a monetary reset via something like Bitcoin would essentially do that. We continue to see a consistent shift of wealth from the average person to the uber wealthy as long as people keep giving them money for things they don't need. Billionaires are more of a symptom of material ideology. It's celebrated and idolised because people tend to measure success based on financial status.
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