You’re looking at the creation of a human life as an addition - something existing that did not before.
But Buddhism teaches the opposite method -that infinite consciousness reduced itself to make a human.
So in Buddhism, letting go of desire means letting go of desires that continue that limitation of consciousness, so that the nirvana of infinite consciousness can be experienced once again.
It’s really not such a bizarre concept - Christian mystics have fled to the wilderness, or pursued poverty, for millennia.