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Money is the megaphone of identity

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  1. skybrian
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    I liked this blog post about how attitudes towards money affect personal satisfaction and relationships. Sure, the title isn't a good summary, it's been written about before, it's simplified, it's...

    I liked this blog post about how attitudes towards money affect personal satisfaction and relationships.

    Sure, the title isn't a good summary, it's been written about before, it's simplified, it's not evidence-based, and so on. But maybe someone needs to read it?

    Life is almost always a framing problem, and wealth is no exception to this. To say that money is complicated is a cliche worthy of a thousand eye rolls, but when it comes to our ongoing relationship with it, I find that it’s quite simple to explain and distill. At any given moment, our journey falls along a vertical spectrum with three main phases [...]

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    This is what I call The Money Spectrum, and it represents the wide variety of views we have about the almighty dollar/euro/whatever throughout our lives. Money can be a difficult thing to talk about because it invokes a blend of weird emotions, and this amorphous slushie of feelings can be hard to express through the crude tool of language.

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