You could choose to look at it that way. I always felt there were numerous ways to interpret that fable.
[The plate now empty, he takes care to set it with a growing stack of others. It hasn't occurred to him that they're disposable. The notion of using a plate only once is abhorrent to someone to whom every earthly item is something hard-won, he assumes they're just a flimsy modern thing that there will be some miraculous way to clean.]
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[The plate now empty, he takes care to set it with a growing stack of others. It hasn't occurred to him that they're disposable. The notion of using a plate only once is abhorrent to someone to whom every earthly item is something hard-won, he assumes they're just a flimsy modern thing that there will be some miraculous way to clean.]