Broken fiat money is the root cause of materialism.
Since fiat cannot store value and requires inflation to survive, people are forced to hoard assets at the expense of the environmental, social and personal consequences. It is forced materialism to perpetuate the machine.
This is the most informative article concerning the BIP110 debate. It highlights what it actually does, and the various bad faith arguments against it.
Must read for any bitcoin node runner (core or knots)