The utter waste of resources

Today we are under a strict regime where products are forced down our throats with only marginal gains and improvements peddled like it's the next best thing.
While progress is needed, and welcome, not all should be released and monetised for the sake of keeping shareholders happy and the ever evolving capitalist engine running.

What we have ended up with is short lifespan and planned obsolescence which affects how we allocate and use resources, resources that are rapidly becoming rarer and harder to get.
Instead the focus should be on creating the longest possible lifespan of what we have, and only replace it when the winnings of replacing it are greater than just appeasing shareholders and the capitalist engine.

Everything today needs to be blasted out there, to get as many eyes on it as possible, to create desire and an artificial need for things.

This leads to a vicious circle which devalues the resources spent to make the items, when the items in all honesty does not have the right to see the light of day, except as Proof of Concept or prototypes.

What I am saying is that not all iterations of products and devices should be considered to be released to the public simply to massage the production and the desires of shareholders.
The focus should instead be on bigger technological breakthroughs that pushes the efficiency of the product, and through the iterative process ensure that we do not produce surplus of obsolete products which should have remained prototypes.

A few companies comes to the forefront of my mind when looking through this, Apple , Nvidia, Intel and AMD .
Do not get me wrong, I am myself using products from these companies, but in my view the major release on a yearly basis is not a healthy one, and on top of that you can see that previous generation raw materials that has been used will be destroyed rather than put into circulation.
This is by no means a pointing finger at these companies, there are industries where the practices are even worse, like the fashion industry.

Lets take a look at another industry that feeds itself, vast office complexes...
Investments are being put into structures that is for the most part going to sit mostly empty for the most of the week, if you think about it, most businesses in the western world have a 40 hour workweek and closed on the weekend.

Why are we allotting such a big space to such an inefficient use?

We are looking at 40 hours on average used of a 168, surely there are more efficient uses of the real-estate?
Why are we as a collective allowing expensive real-estate to sit mostly unused for 128 out of 168 hours per week? Surely there must be better uses of this space?
Of course there are certain things within the infrastructure that makes it harder to share and such, but these days with the change that the pandemic of 2019-2022 showed that we have as a species shifted how we work, at least in the Tech-Industry.

Maybe its time to reduce the office use and repurpose the then not-needed office spaces?