Glass bottles may potentially last a million years, but if it’s late afternoon in the heat of summer, you have a long walk ahead of you, and you’ve just spent the last of your cash to buy an ice cold bottle of root beer, it’ll slip out of your hand and shatter on the sidewalk in no time flat.
They can’t understand it and wouldn’t care if they could, because they have it uncommonly good. Could maybe try something like the plot of Trading Places or one of the other movies like that, where the rich suddenly find themselves destitute and hijinks ensue.
