It’s very hard to turn the page in your rich life: Being frugal may be necessary at some stages of your life, but cheapness is one of the most difficult habits to break—cheap people don’t really think its a problem. Don’t over attach your identity to your spending habits. Ask yourself: What is your philosophy on money costing you? Your intuition is... See more

Money always has the potential to become a moral imperative unto itself. Allow it to expand and it can quickly become a morality so imperative that all others seem frivolous in comparison. For the debtor, the world is reduced to a collection of potential dangers, potential tools, and potential merchandise.23 Even human relations become a matter of

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I have my theories about how American understandings of work and the fetishism of restraint intersect with this thinking, but I’d love to hear you unpack it more. Where does the veneration of budgeting come from? What’s the value in de-naturalizing it?