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Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money
“conventional budgeting methods rely on restriction, discipline, and perfectionism in a way that doesn’t work for people. They ignore an important truth about money: it’s meant to be spent.”
No-Buy Year? No Thanks.
Financial shame: The reason that conflating net-worth with self-worth is so destructive is that it almost always leads to financial shame, and shame is unhealthy.
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
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?