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Maladaptive Frugality

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Re: Maladaptive Frugality

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A deep and thoughtful piece, thanks for sharing. I'm wondering at this point what are known methods of overcoming "mindset inequality". Any advice will be appreciated.

I grew up poor. Everyone I knew was poor or barely getting by. It took me a lifetime to realize over-frugality can also be self-destructive. My extended family members use to trade stories of working dangerous jobs or getting mugged and laugh it off. That was until my aunt got shot in the head working the late shift at a convenience store. She was in the news and the community and the hospital paid all her medical bi…

I appreciate your situation and opinion but I don't see how this is the answer to my question about mindset changes.

Re: Maladaptive Frugality

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The internet is amazing, I like to watch videos from developing nations, where people live on a fraction of western budgets... what strikes me is the happy, free people I see. That's hard to fake.

Presumably that will change once they start watching videos of people living on Western budgets.
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