relationship with money
on the ways in which we relate to money, and how it affects our relationship to ourselves and others
Stuart Evans and
relationship with money
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.
Anne Helen Petersen • Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money
a thread on becoming "money positive", or: going from art school dropout to software middle management and dabbling the stock market 🧵
growing up, I had an inexplicable, implicit distrust of money. I legitimately believed in the saying "money is the root of all evil"
Whatever stories you have about money, are what money becomes for you, for as long as you are attached to those stories.
Millionaires and the surprising truth about their money worries
"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP
David Perell • Tweet
this is the fundamental dynamic that non-coercive marketing is seeking to undermine.
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