Idealistic Realist; Modern Paine Rebel
Money anxiety, in other words, triggers deeper, more primal fears in us. Human beings have three. The fear of abandonment, of annihilation, and of helplessness. All three are triggered. When you don’t feel like you have enough money, you feel like your world is crashing down around you. Like you might not survive. Like you’re being annihilated. Like there’s no way out. You feel at genuine existential risk. That is why your trauma response is triggered, and your heart…
f pr…’t that crippling terrifying anxiety of never having enough money you yourself probably have worse? Worse than the feeling of giving people you don’t like enough to live on? Maybe one of the worst feelings of all, in a human life?
…y has much empathy in the first place? And so our social bonds soon enough come to fray and tatter. People grow to hate each other — genuinely and seriously, because the other has become the source of one’s own anxieties about money. And people grow to hate themselves, too. Who can respect a person who can’t take care of themselves, their own families? Does such a weak person even deserve respect?)