The canary event is more frugal than the jumbo jet event because the cause effect in them works on different spacetime beats. The MCD paradigm is frugality made operative. The total, pure Being . Frugality is a process of internalization because MCD is fundamentally a processor of the outer into the inner. This is why frugality has it over materialism now expressing itself in a hedonistic hyper-consumptive society.
Frugality is a necessity capable of resolving itself into a virtue.