Maybe we wanted to be stuck in school for four years and, after that, stuck in debt for decades. Maybe we wanted these limitations and walls because they made life simple. We wouldn’t have to be bothered by the great existential questions of our day if we had to spend forty-plus hours a week “gettin’ ’er done.” If we take gravity away from a man, odds are he’ll fear the novelty of flight so much that the first thing he’ll want is his feet back on the ground. If freedom was our fear, debt was our gravity.
