As somebody without home internet or a colored television, rides public transit and keeps his heat at 48 degrees all winter long, I am often convinced that most people are dumb slugs who spend their lives staring at their boob-tubes, spending their endless hours obsessing over Kim Kardashian while mindlessly ordering tons of plastic garbage off of Amazon to fill their 6-yard plastics recycling dumpster that sits in their front yard.

Truth is my disdain for all things suburbia, the “reliable” SUVs and sedans, the plastic-coated houses with their vinyl siding, the mowed grass lawns, the supermarkets and big box stores, driving everywhere, expensive organic food is probably not grounded in that much reality. Lives based around monthly payments, installment loans, credit cards, mortgages and auto loans. Where people have negative or minimal net worth.

There are definately people who live extravagantly, over spend and are extensively in debt – or as the euphanism is – leveraged. Many people are just happy with the standard American existence of high consumerism, but that is not necessarily all Americans, as others do choose to live the simple life. There are more homesteaders out there, more people who don’t have a lot of technology then media wants you to believe. Indeed, living in suburbs, I have to think many of my views are colored by the people around me, and when I travel into the city and especially rural areas, it often is av very different experience.