As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
I think if we can get people focused to do what we need to do to keep our kids from being stuck with this debt that they didn't accrue, you might be surprised at how far we can move this conversation.
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.
What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
To suggest that we can't pay our debts - that's absolutely not true.
The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.
When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.