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 If bitcoin is global reserve asset then the fixed supply forces the world into a deflationary spiral of sorts. In such an environment the only way you ever commit to consumption in the present is if you can extract a lasting utility from that good/widget over a long time period. 

Plastic toys become pointless. Wooden toys that are passed down are a far wiser consumption preference. Construction trends towards homes capable of standing 500 years not 50 years. All this bodes well for a culture enshrining sustainable practices as economic incentives align. 

What you need to do is adjust your time horizons. I remember being utter infuriated in 1996 over the speed of internet page loading times over a dial up modem. Nothing about anything worked particularly well despite the internet being around and in development for a decade. Yet 10 years later as mobile phones collided with the internet protocols human interconnectedness simply exploded - dematerialising huge aspects of civilisation. I didn't have the foresight in 1996.

Bitcoin hash rate is growing, development is moving at a rate commensurate to the importance of getting the foundations right, economic incentives align with sustainability ideals, and in and on.

Where are you sourcing information from?

Do you follow Troy Cross? Lyn Alden? Have you read any of Fidelity's reports? Do subscribe to any paid research like ARK? Do you have mempool.space bookmarked? Any overarching dashboards you follow like bitbo.io to give you a feel for how the protocol is behaving? Do you follow any of the key capital allocators in the space like ego death capital to better understand the layer 2 scaling strategies? I've barely scratched the surface there.

My point here is this - how much work are you willing to do to get your head around a paradigm shift in how we as humans interact?

Sorry I realise I haven't given you specific answers but to be fair your post was pretty unstructured and broad! 
 The deflationary aspect is a good one to lean on to explain the conection to being more resourceful (or thrifty, frugal, economical, etc.).

I can't really use myself as an example because I already tried to save money at every opportunity, so it's not like bitcoin pushed me in this direction.

Now that I think of it, I can't recall any stories about people who got in early on bitcoin going out and buying a lamborghini or a mansion. Maybe it happened and I missed it or it went unreported, but it seems unlikely because critics would LOVE to connect btc to what they consider wasteful spending.