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I put my ideas into farming in 2002, raised my first chicken in 2003, and then by 2005, goats and cattle and a few sheep. This is my own 3-ring circus and I love the job. To study animal husbandry and small agriculture, I participated in many courses, seminars and seminars. I went on a farm trip and chose some farmers to guide me. But to make money, I had to do anything other than the farm. So I transformed my writing skills into agricultural grants, research, reports and editorial comments. It is this article that has led me to attend conferences of scholars, entrepreneurs, farmers and activists, regional and national conferences. At a conference like this about 20 years ago, the topic was sustainability, and the featured speaker was a public opinion expert who warned us not to use the term sustainability. They believe sustainability is too complex to make mainstream consumers unintelligible.

Here, we are 20 years later, and the public has learned about sustainability based on their own life experience. This healthcare system is unsustainable. The minimum wage is unsustainable. This kind of working environment is unsustainable. This cost of living is unsustainable. If it is unsustainable, then it is out of balance. Income and expenditure are imbalanced. Our consumption exceeds production. Mainly math. But when math has been a long time, we feel this in our mindset, emotions, emotions, and the spirit of the times. I think that’s where many of us are now. Our lives have been lost for a long time, and the driving force within us is dissatisfaction with our pain.

My own life was once beyond balance and I paid a heartbreaking price. My passion for farming took a lot of time and it left my relationship with my husband unbalanced. He thought I was taking too much debt. The cost of learning to breed animals is my hard work and mistakes that I have not recovered. My farm income never caught up with my expenses. That’s the job I dreamed of. I’m willing to be poor for the farm, but my credit card is overwhelmed by the truth of it. I exhausted my bank account. Then, when I was 60, my body started to fight against the hard physical labor, my work/rest was more unbalanced. I got to the point where my hips and knees were injured every day. After years of my pain/pleasure ratio has lost balance and cannot be fixed.

When I sold my farmhouse and the surrounding land in 2016, I paid off all my debts and life became sustainable. Temporarily. To maintain economic sustainability, I had to transform my lifestyle from materialistic luxury to minimalist. Simple. I’m very young. This is the right thing, but it is emotionally torn. I got rid of 90% of all my treasures. I mourn. Then I welcome the new sustainability. I learned to live within my own means and adopted a zero-debt lifestyle. It’s not easy, but I do recommend it. Now, my goal is to stay sustainable to keep my income and expenditure balanced. As I deal with the challenges of life in life, I’m increasingly aware that the debt culture drives us all to spend more money than we do.

Debt is a big business. It was sold to us by credit card companies and banks, as if debt was a privilege. But debt is economic slavery. This is what we are fighting as a country now. Witness all the ways we put us in debt. Buy something on Amazon and you will have the option to split the price into several smaller payments, splitting it by time and debt. I’m sure you’re seeing credit card ads encourage us to pay off debts by buying items we can’t afford. The average credit card balance is about $6,000. The average student loan is about $38,000. The average new car loan is about $41,000. The average monthly mortgage loan is over $2,000. Bank loans, car loans, mortgages, loan consolidation, education loans, credit cards – all promote debt culture. We have been in debt all our lives. Look at the ads for debt and you will see how debt is described as status. How to fuck that?

Now we are being tortured by the concept of Treasury, its size and why this is a problem. You don’t have to be a wizard to understand the differences between income and expenditure. But it is painful to align our spending habits with our income. Doing this with a chainsaw is messy, rude and wasteful. Rational people will disagree. My point is that we provide verbal services for sustainability related to climate, renewable energy, recycling and our agricultural practices. But we don’t talk about sustainable government often. We rarely ask who benefits from Treasury bonds. Perhaps it is because the government debt is just a big mirror that reflects our culture. We are encouraged to live outside our means and be brainwashed to accept inevitable debt. Why? Who collected interest on our debt? Follow the money.

Reducing household debt and changing spending habits is a boycott. The financial system preys on us. Don’t buy a debt culture. Economic slavery that resists credit cards and loans. Resist materialism and simplify your life. Build a sustainable you. Living in our means will make us more resilient. Helping others live in their own means will strengthen our community. Keep your money. Support local businesses with your expenses. Spend less money, save more, and when you spend money, consider buying the world of purchase. Vote for your neighborhood. Protect yourself. Protect your community. Become a debt awareness. That is the path to sustainable development. We need your wisdom, strength, commitment and resources. Spend money to work for the ideas you believe. Not a debt. Resist debt and build a sustainable you.