In the same way that you'd be worried about managing your own household finances—people are really aware of how much money they owe and how much they're paying on debt service costs—yes, you definitely should be aware of it. In a context in which the labour market sucks, wages are not going up, you're facing significant technological change right now and some of the major prior assumptions of how the world and the economy work are changing or are gone, yes, I think it would cause anybody anxiety to worry about how much debt you had and how much you were paying on it.
