Money with Katie
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Money with Katie
They certainly wouldn’t tip someone 50% on purpose, because they see money as a zero-sum game. If you get less, then I get more. Their sole purpose in life is to accumulate as much wealth as possible, one nickel at a time, until the end, and—then what? What was all that effort for? What was the purpose? They work and save, and work and save, and ne
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Money was supposed to provide safety. Instead, an obsession with money made me feel anxious and inadequate... I was also setting myself up to feel miserable. Because, frankly, I haven’t been very good at money—at making it, compounding it, keeping track of it, and protecting it. Using money as a scorecard was bound to lead to perpetual ... See more
Frederik Gieschen • Gratitude, Desire, and a Money Paradox
Is spending the most productive years of your life chained to the job market to collect a lot of rarely used stuff that gathers dust in the closet or takes up space in junkyards a wise choice? Were you really born just to die, leaving a large pile of discarded consumer goods? Probably not.
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The Catholic legal scholar Cathleen Kaveny has argued that the reason so many of them are so unhappy—despite being generally very well paid—is the convention of the “billable hour,” which obliges them to treat their time, and thus really themselves, as a commodity to be sold off in sixty-minute chunks to clients. An hour not sold is automatically a... See more