Cowley: The illusion of material equivalence

DEBT

We have lived on debt, debt and more debt. We have all been complicit, governments, banks, producers, retailers, consumers. Now we have to pay it back.

My laptop finally came to the end of its useful life on Friday. We have been together for four years. But the accumulation of viruses, a full registry and programs that take up gigabytes of memory have filled its brain to overflowing. I finally fell into the arms of Apple, much to the delight of my daughters. Process But the whole process set me to thinking about our time together. I bought my laptop from savings; money in the bank. Another Stewart Cowley, in a parallel universe, would have bought it with credit. At the end of four years, we both would have a virus-riddled collectio...