"Wine caves" is a strong meme for Current Day, both for the socialist-leaning left in earnest and their opposition in satire, because it so clearly illustrates that the perceived enemy is not necessarily power, but luxury itself.
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It's important to remember that a poverty aesthetic is nothing new, and common to many philosophical traditions & religions. But it doesn't procure progress toward better human quality of life, which is why it really ought to stay out of politics/government/resource allocation
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A note: the opposite of a bad thing is not necessarily a good thing. It is not wrong to buy enjoyable things, but there is a flavor of consumption the assumes the scarcity itself is the source of enjoyment: this is good because *only* I can have it. This does society no good.
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Yes, and this lies at the heart of conservative/libertarian criticisms of wine caving: the people haughtily telling everyone else that they can't have cars, cows, and air travel freely partake of industrial civilization's usufructs they would deny others.
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