I've long been a fan of the em dash—one of the first things I did when I migrated back from OSX to Windows was to set up an AutoHotKey function to map <Alt>+<-> to an em dash.
This reminds me of Teilhard de Chardin's take on complexification, as laid out in his seminal book Le Phénomène humain. See e.g., this article[0] for a simple overview of the hypothesis. For further reading, I recommend the excellent new translation by Sarah Appleton-Weber, The Human Phenomenon[1].
For what it's worth, I agree with you and feel those examples are indeed emblematic of our current economic mode.
The "alternative" you envision is premised on shifting power back to the masses, but I think it's also important to mention guardrails to prevent excessive capital accumulation. There would still be an economy, but it would be driven by a more egalitarian aggregate demand and less likely to suffer the shocks of boom bust cycles associated with financial malarkey.
To say the quiet part out loud: your body's center of mass is located near your belly button. [0] You maintain balance through a combination of your vision, vestibular system, and proprioception [1]—focusing attention on your belly button keys into that last method and reinforces your overall sense of balance.
There may yet be something to Teilhard de Chardin's take on the Noosphere which exists in a matrix of consciousness that spans planets, solar systems, galaxies, galaxy clusters, and indeed universes!
If somebody never watched it, I recommend starting with the older videos, though. There isn't any dependency on the chronological order per se, but once finished with "just" making knifes from all kinds of stuff the guy gets way more esoteric over time, and some stuff he does admittedly gets rather hard to follow, since it has little to no commentary. Like instead of just using kitchen salt he'll extract it from sea water first or do something even more obscure.
I encourage you to consider an alternative perspective, in which grocery stores intentionally restrict availability of food in order to artificially maintain high profits and externalize the costs of reprocessing for redistribution: https://twitter.com/a_vansi/status/1445450534672998407
What if, for example, food that would spoil in a couple more days were simply moved to a "free" section of the grocery store? No need for complex shipping or logistics costs, simply ask the stocker to move from one aisle to another. Why don't grocery stores do that, if they're concerned about "reducing waste"?
Reading this comment and shaking my head, I am reminded of the Upton Sinclair quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
One kind of building that I came across is called an "Earthship", which relies on "thermal mass construction and natural cross-ventilation to regulate indoor temperature".[1]
It will be somewhat difficult to retrofit buildings to take advantage of e.g. thermal mass inertia, but I'm hopeful that new construction will increasingly favor passive/low-energy cooling methods.
