According to line 2, with what activities are people preoccupied?

William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much With Us" laments the disconnect between humanity and the natural world that surrounds it. The poem begins in the following way:

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

Line two focuses on two related ideas: "Getting and spending" and "lay[ing] waste our powers." While one can make an educated guess that "getting and spending" refer to aspects of materialism within society, the third and fourth lines help to clarify this. Wordsworth expands by saying that there is "little in Nature that is ours," thus adding another level to our obsession with material goods. The idea of possession and ownership is central to the "[g]etting and spending" established on line two, but line three expands to show that our misdirected obsession with owning is such that nature—something that people should feel a connection to—has been rejected and replaced with a desire for material goods. Due to all of the getting, spending, and rejecting of nature, "we lay waste our powers," meaning that we sacrifice the good that we are capable of, all in the name of ownership of things.