She suggested the most productive route for people feeling anxious about money is to take in different financial perspectives and make a budget — one that's realistic and shame-free.
The only thing better than communism is whatever liberals fantasize capitalism to be.
All I have to do is say "I am rich" and stacks of cash flow into my wallet. Businessmen are actually super altruistic and are just dying for people without experience to apply to their c-suite positions and make easy money.
While parents can teach their kids valuable lessons about saving, not all the money rules that pertained to Gen Xers and boomers translate to today's economy.
For example, Clayman said, generations growing up in the postwar era were more likely to have pension plans, while retirement is largely self-funded now. Plus, factors like inflation and a higher cost of living can make it harder for younger people to stick to strict saving schedules.
Things that used to be provided for you for free now require you to save money yourself, but also advice about saving money is old-fashioned and you shouldn't listen.
Mow lawns for a summer and save your earnings to pay for college. Take some extra shifts at the factory and buy a house. Sell it in 20 years for a million dollars and move into a condo in Florida.
She said life transitions, self-comparison, and outdated ideas about money can fuel this perception.
I'm gonna guess the "outdated ideas about money" include "getting paid more as inflation increases" and "having enough to afford a down payment on a home"
This isn't what dysmorphia even means. The word they want is dysphoria. But I suppose it fits the bill for pseudoscientific sounding buzzwords that sound official enough to people who aren't inoculated against it.
“Much like gender dysmorphia, money dysmorphia goes away if you simply come to grips with being stuck in your situation” is what I’m getting from the article.
She suggested the most productive route for people feeling anxious about money is to take in different financial perspectives and make a budget — one that’s realistic and shame-free.
I did a realistic and shame free budget once and indeed it turned out i can't afford neither shame nor much of anything real.
So they know that we're barely making do and want us to buy more crap
Honestly, it's fucking unbelievable because between me and my partner, our household income is pretty fucking good
But between having to maintain our house and cars, rising food prices and the general expenses of being alive, it's still damn hard to actually save up anything or invest or whatever else these ghouls want us to do
"Money dysmorphia" god I fucking hate capitalists. How about we get rid of the fake job postings polluting the board sites, and how about capitalists actually start paying a living wage before it starts looking more attractive to rob these hookass motherfuckers.
"Outdated ideas about money" like having enough of it to buy a home and retire I assume. Gonna guess that phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Edit:
Very coded language but the concern is exactly over the impossibility to retire. The article mentions both that pension plans are more rare and there is even less disposable income free for retirement savings... as evidence that millenials are worrying over nothing??
And there it is. Oh sure you'll never be able to afford to buy even a 1BR apartment when your parents who made less than you (adjusted for inflation) had a house and 3 kids at your age, but that's just outdated thinking.
While parents can teach their kids valuable lessons about saving, not all the money rules that pertained to Gen Xers and boomers translate to today's economy.
For example, Clayman said, generations growing up in the postwar era were more likely to have pension plans, while retirement is largely self-funded now. Plus, factors like inflation and a higher cost of living can make it harder for younger people to stick to strict saving schedules.
This article is just Krugman's fucking 'vibe-cession' bullshit with extra steps, and it even kneecaps it's own argument.
Julia [Pugachevsky] is a senior health reporter on the Insider Health team primarily covering skincare and relationships.
Lul, the intensity and frequency of this "be happy with no money but give us your labour" propaganda and gaslighting is getting so insane it might even become funny.
Not to mention that people hired to dish out such marketing are prob just some random minimal wage workers & interns.
Are you poor and sad and oppressed with your soul a withered husk, or do you actually live in an amazing wonderful world and you're too crazy to know it? Capitalism really is an abusive household patriarch.
Clayman said that while not all advice about money is wrong, it can become harmful if someone starts hoarding money or overworking to try to follow it.
Sounds like making up a disorder to treat with a made up occupation that's advertising itself as some sort of licensed professional practitioner of a legitimate field... If we had a legitimate government these people would be arrested for maleducation, fraud, and mental healthcare malpractice by trying to tell people 'don't believe your lying eyes' and actively causing harm.
Money affirmation therapy, which can include cash injections, forgiveness of debt, and social services such as free healthcare, have been shown to be 99% effective at treating money dysphoria. However there is a strong political movement against making these proven interventions more widely available.