its never quite bought me either. its rented me like i'm sure it does 99.99% of those of us on here. not using credit has enabled me to not feel indentured. on the other paw, its kept me from living in the kind of place i'd like to.
some things only reach affecting people directly when its too late to do anything about them. if you think the kind of world we all have to live in doesn't affect you personally, what planet did you say you were living on? we'd have to all roll purfect 9's on 9 ten sided dice each, for humanity as a species not to be directly affected by what we're doing to our world's biosphere. i mean anything's possible. just damd unlikely.
the kind of world i'd like to live in. i mean it could build some parts of it, but without the culture/spirit being there, the resemblance would be very superficial.