> but we are competing with people from countries where a good paying job is more rare than a vacation getaway so we can't stop making concessions. In my exper

> but we are competing with people from countries where a good paying job is more rare than a vacation getaway so we can't stop making concessions. In my experience, this is the source of our trouble: we want a middle class life. We want Netflix and a TV subscription and the fastest internet service, we want two cars for our families, we want to be able to eat at restaurants once or twice a month, we want to just buy a new thing if the old one breaks instead of fixing it, we want our house to look the best on the inside and out, we want to take an exotic vacation almost every year. These are living outside of our means. We can afford these things, but at significant cost to our mental health, to our family and societal obligations, in a word, to our happiness and joy in this life. I'm convinced that a significant number of us should start living like we're poor, getting rid of all those aforementioned things that have enslaved us, and we'll be significantly happier in life, finally see a way out of our insurmountable debt, finally have the free time we need to do this or that chore we accidentally put off for a few years straight, finally have time to read to our children every single night without the guilt we feel over not using that time to work.