Hold on, my friend! YES, human beings are owed something. Our purpose was never to be money-makers for others. All throughout history, most societies had systems in which human beings provided help to each other. We had to — nobody could survive on his own. It took some cooperation to build structures, hunt game, preserve food, whatever that society needed to do to survive in their particular place and time.

It’s only now that young people are required to borrow huge amounts of money and then be strangled by debt (enriching others) just to launch their lives.

It isn’t “naturally” that way. I’m shocked that you think it is. We have set this system up to allow the rich to squeeze resources from the poor.

No, many of us cannot, in fact, deduct our mortgage interest from our taxes. I really hate this argument. It doesn’t apply to everyone. You probably know how this works, but for others, here’s a link: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/23/tax-bill-will-slash-the-number-of-homeowners-claiming-the-mortgage-deduction.html

It isn’t silly that I’m working to pay off my mortgage as quickly as possible. It’s smart.

If I’d rented before having enough to pay for a home, I’d still be renting. I was lucky to have gotten an FHA loan with a very low down payment. My rent and house payment were about the same, so it made a dramatic difference in my well-being to start paying a mortgage. I couldn’t have saved anything above the cost of rent — there was nothing extra TO save!

I CATEGORICALLY REJECT THE IDEA THAT HUMAN BEINGS DON’T DESERVE A PLACE TO LIVE UNTIL THEY’VE “PROVIDED VALUE TO SOCIETY.”

Rich kids aren’t held to those rules. They have parents who help them in a thousand ways. Not everyone has rich parents. But we are all human beings. Human beings are all of value, whether they have rich parents, poor parents or no living parents at all.