Drinks that fill itself when you finish drinking. Ice that never melt. Plates of these... sweets we use to fill our bellies that offer us nothing of substance. We fill empty days with empty calories. With drink. With this - ostentatious nothingness while there are others who starve. Our bread and circuses.
At least when we fight to survive there is purpose in this. Better to struggle than to surrender to pull of mediocrity.