What? Where did you get ‘guilty’ from? You’re putting those things to the uses they’re intended for, just as XKCD switches on his lamp to read a little before bed or whatever. Nothing to feel guilty about.
What the comic is about is, well, I don’t know, how complicated the world we’ve built for ourselves is, maybe? And how we tend to take it for granted that the curve of the lamp has probably been debated and worried over and so on, and the placement of switches on cords is governed by a set of regulations that are really too much for a layperson to pay much attention to, and the food on your fork was grown or raised hundreds of miles away, and that has to be organised to happen. And maybe it’s how you split up the work of a designer or a farmer or a delivery driver over all the people who buy a lamp from that company or eat the food from that farm until each fraction is almost nothing, a second of attention for each mouthful or lamp bought, but collected together is many, many worker-days. And everything is like this, the result of hours of work by some person or persons somewhere far from us. Never mind guilty, doesn’t thinking about it make you dizzy?
