John McAfee and ownership

John McAfee, creator of the famous anti-virus software of the same name, saw his fortune of $100 million shrink to $4 million during the sub-prime credit crunch. He recently said that he learned from the experience that the very rich "don't own stuff, the stuff owns them". It might be useful to consider how much that also applies to the rest of us. I have often rented houses, cars, tools, and other things. Renting is simple, inexpensive, and eliminates all bother with maintenance and repair. Why do we own? Normally, we own when we want a the long-term use of some object. An ascetic mendicant owns little or nothing, and feels just dandy about this self-imposed poverty. They seek happiness in the non-material. Imagine letting go of all desire for long-term attachment to any material object(s). Imagine replacing those desires with the desire to have better relationships and to learn more about everything that interests us. Imagine bringing love and knowledge into our sights, instead of shiny consumer items. Imagine being, therefore, free of ownership. Imagine being free of "stuff". Stuff that must be always be maintained, repaired, guarded, traded or sold, eventually and inevitably to become landfill. We ourselves become landfill. Do we want to spend the precious time we have here rearranging landfill?