You're making some very large assumptions about the reader's circumstances and motivations: >you have 150k in the bank >no one is stopping you >the only reas

You're making some very large assumptions about the reader's circumstances and motivations: >you have 150k in the bank >no one is stopping you >the only reason you don't... Overall I think your response is not convincing. The problems of materialism are systemic because materialism is baked into the culture and institutions of the US. People are thus motivated to blame the system.