Sure. Let’s blame economic disparity on trivial individual choices while the public coffers are being plundered to the advantage of the already wealthy.

Injustice is stressful. When I’m under stress, I know I am liable to make decisions that I wouldn’t otherwise make. I’m liable to use material means to assuage the feelings of despair. After all, isn’t this the messaging reinforced in advertising and media? Am I able to ignore advertising when it intrudes upon me at every turn? In the subway, on billboards, in my apps, in news papers, in news headlines, on TV, in movies, in books, in stores, between songs, in songs, from our friends, from our families, starting from birth.

There’s really no escaping from environmental stressors anymore. Not short of leaving society entirely. But billions of people lack the financial independence to do so. And I’m not talking about wealth. I’m talking about a lack of debt and enough money to abscond after taking care of ones obligations.