You sound like a bitter old man with no life frankly. Frugality is great, unless it’s paired with self righteousness, and then it becomes resentment or perhaps a spirit of poverty.
but you say you worked for 40 plus years, and apparently your wife had to work 40 plus years too. Well either you were working in the free market, or you were working for government which is funded by the free market.
What is remarkable about your arrogance is that the life you live is honorable, but to think you could do that without the free market providing the money for many things...is just absurd. IT’s also remarkably self centered that you think everyone should be called to live the same way. That’s not how God works.
The “free market” provided the money. LOL.
No, it was my Creator who provided skills and opportunity to exercise good stewardship over them.
What’s remarkable is His ability to do so even in the context of a self-worshiping system of idolatry that’s clearly en-route (again) to the due penalties described in Romans 1:25...
Your entire “free” market exists in the context of the system of temporal world government that has existed throughout human history.
Per 2 Corinthians 4:4 — Whose domain is that, temporarily, under?