Yes, it hurts, Corrine, because we care. We've some how escaped the doctrinal system, most haven't but hopefully more are escaping now. We live in a system that concentrates wealth to a few at the expense of the many. This usury has devastating psychological impacts as well as the physical. Such a system was once banned by every religion, it is the sin of sins, the progenitor of the 7 deadly sins. Dante described it as "an extraordinary form of violence by which one does the most damage with the least effort." In any case, that is what we are witnessing, the destruction of the ecosystem, our life support system, by powerful and brutally violent forces, leaving us all behind. No wonder we can get depressed requiring us to be constantly applying the only antidote we have, action, be it writing, speaking, cleaning a river, or protesting. Too bad one of the psychological consequences is that usury makes people be uncooperative making it difficult to unite when we so badly need to. With a small change in the rules we could create an economics of care to replace the economics of greed, money is the leverage point in this system. monetaryalliance.org