Relationship With Money
on the ways in which we relate to money, and how it affects our relationship to ourselves and others
by Stuart Evans and · updated 2mo ago
Relationship With Money
What if you: Gave 5x what you are comfortable with to someone? Abandoned the idea of an inheritance or lower your goal of retirement savings by 10% and instead invest that money in people, causes, and learning in ways that might lead to interesting results? Help pay a bill in someone’s life that might be having a hard time? Give money directly to p
... See morefrom Unlocking Generosity | #142 by Paul Millerd
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- The simplest problem with this approach is that budgeting, like dieting, doesn’t work. Restriction and deprivation are unsustainable; accurately tracking spending is hard; income fluctuates, and costs don’t operate on a perfect monthly reset. Budgets don’t account for the way lives work, so they’re hard to keep in our lives consistently.
from Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money by Anne Helen Petersen
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- Once again, I am coming back to the mutual relationship between words and thought. In order to create the possibility of relationships and systems based on human needs, a consciousness shift may be absolutely necessary, and changing our language may just be the path, even if I don’t quite yet see exactly how it could go there. As we learn to speak ... See more
from Does Anyone Deserve Anything? by Miki Kashtan
dane cads added 6mo ago
- Budget culture makes money all about you — your actions, responsibilities and mindset. But individual actions can’t overcome persistent pay gaps, generational trauma, systemic oppression and algorithmic bias. No money management method can square rising housing costs with stagnant wages. No amount of self control can make up for the costs of “profe... See more
from Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money by Anne Helen Petersen
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- In the same way diet culture is quick to blame health conditions on a person’s weight, or prescribe food restriction as treatment toward the goal of being thin, budget culture sees measures like credit scores and debt as signifiers of financial health, and prescribes spending restrictions as the first step toward wellness — defined, at its core, as... See more
from Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money by Anne Helen Petersen
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- Budget culture keeps you striving to improve your own finances so you can improve everything money pays for in your life — you have to become rich to thrive in a world made for people who are rich. Fighting budget culture means remaking the world in a way that lets everyone experience the ease of being “rich,” regardless of the numbers in their ban... See more
from Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money by Anne Helen Petersen
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- Budget culture is the damaging set of beliefs around money that rewards restriction and deprivation — much like diet culture does for food and bodies — and promotes an unhealthy and fantastical ideal of financial success.
from Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money by Anne Helen Petersen
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
Whatever stories you have about money, are what money becomes for you, for as long as you are attached to those stories.
from Millionaires and the surprising truth about their money worries
dane cads added 6mo ago
- The only sure way to make money is to have money, but no personal finance expert wants to admit their wealth is built on anything other than a solid foundation of hard work and self-control — not their degrees in finance, Ivy League educations, middle class upbringings… or their ability to sell you a fantasy.
from Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money by Anne Helen Petersen
Stuart Evans added 1y ago