This idea can branch out to the concept of materialism. To have an excess of "things" is a sign that someone is "wealthy" or "rich"which in my way of thinking is false. A person who's life is loaded with "stuff" and things considered to be luxurious is subject and bound to the objects. While the person who makes a decent living and lives in a Winabego on the beach is more free than any rich man in my eyes. The concept of ownership alone is false in this country. No one "owns" a house. Just look at the word mortgage
which means an agreement till death in french. This blatantly shows that a person is figuratively chained to this material object forever according to a document. Sure, when someone has large amounts of money and has many objects like cars and houses it expresses social status to those around them and people think of that person as a great or prosperous individual, but is someone really a great person if they are defined only by objects they have and not who they are?
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