An oversupply of gadgets, an undersupply of liquidity™

The reverse-capitalism bind in one drawer; the closet full, the account empty. Too many shoes, too many clothes, too many gadgets; and not enough of the one thing that actually moves. It names a truth the sticker price hides: stuff is not wealth. A house can be crowded with things and starved of liquidity, the cash that pays the bill that comes due today, and the second is the only kind that keeps the lights on. It is the whole American squeeze compressed to a shelf; the economy is very good at filling your rooms and very bad at filling your account, because the things were sold to you on the way to the money running out. Asset-rich in objects, cash-poor in the thing you can spend; an oversupply of what you were sold, an undersupply of what you need. The closet is not the asset it looks like. It is the floor argument turned toward your own possessions; a life can be full of purchases and short of a floor. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)