They live in a world where 700 million people are currently starving. Do you think you care about the washing machines if your children have nothing to eat?

ITT: people who didn't even glance at the study.

Quoting from the study:

"It is important to understand that the DLS represents a minimum floor for decent living. It does not represent a an aspirational standard and certainly does not represent a ceiling. However, it is also a level of welfare not currently achieved by the vast majority of people. A new paper by Hoffman et al finds that 96.5 percent of people in low- and middle-income countries are deprived of at least one DLS dimension...we can conclude that 6.4 billion people, more than 80% of the world's population, are deprived of DLS."

The authors are not suggesting that everyone be forced on DLS at gunpoint. They are suggesting an absolute bare minimum standard that the overwhelming majority of people on Earth do not yet even have. Quite obviously any excess production could and would be used to increase standard of living.

You could double everything in this post too and that's only 60% consumption.

• 20 m² of personal living space + 20 m² for every 2 ppl as bathroom / kitchen
• 4200 kcal/day
• 2800 kWh/year, but this already includes public services (education/healthcare)
• 1 washing machine per 10 ppl
• 2.4 kg clothing / 6 months
• wear tops for 1.5 days and bottoms for 7.5 days without washing
• 1 laptop per 2 people with a yearly power consumption of 62 kWh. (bizzarely they talk about an 800 MHz computer and seem to confuse HDD and RAM). If your gaming computer used 400 W you could use it for 300 hr/year.

That seems a lot more reasonable to me and we still come in under carrying capacity