How Can Our Habits of Consumption Provide a Picture of Our Ethical Responsibilities?

To consume means to use up or spend wastefully. Our habits of consumption provides a picture of who we are and our ethical responsibilities. We are either squanderers or spendthrifts. We either consume selfishly or selflessly. If we consume wastefully it could mean that we are irresponsible individuals, poor managers of time and money, and that when we act to suit and serve our purposes without any true regard for anyone or anything else. When we consume in this manner this could entail that we have our priorities sequenced wrong. Consuming lavishly can mean that everything we are egocentric individuals.