is everyone richer than me?

our current anxieties of income inequality and work dissatisfaction are only amplified in the digital commons. There is always someone else in our network having more fun, making more money, or getting more psychic value out of those connections.

The insatiable goals to acquire more, succeed conspicuously, and be as attractive as possible lead us to objectify one another, and even ourselves. When people see themselves as little more than their attractive bodies, jobs, or bank accounts, it brings great suffering…You become a heartless taskmaster to yourself, seeing yourself as nothing more

money status, where you equate your self-worth with your net worth; and money vigilance, where you’re generally pretty careful with money, to the point of developing a nervousness around making sure you have enough saved in case of emergency.