Me, putting a chain around the neck of a CNBC column writer: You're not being strangled, you're just suffering breathing dysmorphia
Your oxygen levels are doing relatively well. There's plenty of oxygen all around you.
Love how all that shit Xi has been doing in China
- No foreign owned media
- Stop driving people insane with social media posturing
- We need to in source our battery and silicon chip production cause it's central to our economy
Is suddenly a really good idea in the West.
even if they're doing relatively well
"Even if"? If you're not doing relatively well, and you feel that you're not doing well, then you have a realistic view of how you're doing, and by definition do not have "money dysphoria". This fake thing that they just made up, to the extent that it exists, only applies to people who are doing well and feel inadequate. Poor young people who think they're poor are correct.
And what does it matter if someone is doing "relatively well" if they're still literally living paycheck to paycheck? Or if they're saving such a meager amount compared to inflation that they know for certain they'll never retire?
Exactly. I would argue that if "relatively well" means you're paycheck to paycheck with no end in sight, then it doesn't matter that you're doing as well as or better than your peers. Your financial health relative to the average is irrelevant if the average person is also doing poorly. If most people had cancer, you could argue that having a melanoma is better than having stage 4 pancreatic, but you wouldn't say that you're healthy just because your cancer is less detrimental than the average.
These are the headlines that we will project on the wall before ordering them to face it
This is a little bit “shaming younger readers for daring to feel economically strained” and a little bit “telling older readers the kids are doing fine, feel free to continue being an economic sociopath.”
Crypto man told me to pick the wealth mindset, okay I'm applying it...and I'm wealthy now? (no)
This is partially true tbh. You would be surprised how many people make six figures and still consider themselves living paycheck to paycheck.
Sometimes that poor financial planning, sometimes that’s living in a high COL area where your rent or mortgage is nearly your entire paycheck. Especially if that’s a family income and not an individual. I still wouldn’t cry crocodile tears over them but I can see how that happens.
