woah paramount, not sure how you thought i was denigrating anyone. all im saying is it’s just outside the norm not to be heavily in debt. inf act, my co-workers are disturbed ina way when i say i don’t have amortgage. it seems, well, uncomfortable to them. like, what’s with me, why aren’t I tied down liek them?

if your debt is due to medical bills, well, that was outside the scope of the kinda debt i was talking about. obviosuly just looking at anumber and making ajudgment about a eprson is pretty dumb. but also obviously most of society does that throughout schooling, inclduing gpa, standardized test scores, etc… we love shorthand and love to attribute all sorts of characteristics to it. if you tell me your lsat (law school admissions test) score is in the highest 95th eprcentile, say, i’m probably going to have a particula r image of how quick and sharp youa re vs if you tell me that score is in the bottom 25th percentile. stupid, yeah. not taking into account all kinds of other things, yeah. sucks, yeah. we live and die by the numbers in this country. and to a large extent, the numebrs do correspond with something int he real world. not necessarily something that matters….but something…