A Radical Thought

I have been thinking a radical thought. It's not something I am spending much time lamenting, but I am thinking about something. 

It occurred to me that existing comes at a monetary expense. It literally costs money to exist. Society has setup this construct. But, it's rather ridiculous, if you think about it. Rather unfair.

Take me, for example. I didn't choose to exist, I just do. I'm not saying anything about my feelings on the fact that I exist without any say in the matter. I'm just saying that I didn't choose it. It just is. I'm just here!

What's odd to me is how society and specifically capitalism has made simply existing mean that I owe someone money. 

It cost money for me to be born into this world, with medical bills. I can't eat for free, not really. Even if I wanted to grow my own food, I would have to buy seeds. Plants being hybrids you can't use seeds from the plants you grow for the next season. You must buy new! I can't hunt or fish without paying someone first, for the permission in licenses. This is even the case on land I own. 

I can't own land without owing people money year after year, just for owning the land inside of an arbitrary boundary line. I can't live off the electrical grid without paying fees to someone for not using the provided lines. 

What I am getting at is that we are born owing someone money and it never stops. Even though we have no say in our existing, we owe someone because we're alive. Capitalism has found a way to make existing into a business.

Odd, isn't it?