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It's hard to have conversations about money
Talking about it openly is not easy, especially for large amounts, especially when people close to you are involved https://twitter.com/nerdposterino/status/1280693652491243526
Money is a powerful tool in the hands of someone who both has it and has thought carefully about using it well https://twitter.com/nerdposterino/status/1281424726922059776
...but it is not all-powerful, and this means that it's hard to appreciate it the right amount. Very easy to pay too much or too little attention to it https://twitter.com/nerdposterino/status/1281424396754853888
It's often difficult to even imagine someone using up a hundred thousand dollars a week. For me it certainly is; I have never ever spent anywhere near this much money in that short a period of time https://twitter.com/nerdposterino/status/1279127556445343745
How we think about money is often more in terms of feelings than numbers. This is not necessarily a human flaw. Very few personal finance books mention this at all https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1281426458208923648
A lot of financial education is framed as "you *shouldn't* use your money on this or that" rather than what you can or should do https://twitter.com/GeniesLoki/status/1282584727032037376
the mindset behind putting your whole financial life in a spreadsheet https://twitter.com/nerdposterino/status/1272725717776764929
"i can buy food and have it not be an equation calculating nutrients per coin" is not just a question of coins but also a whole worldview's worth of unspoken assumptions. sometimes this is true even for ppl who have no shortage of coins https://mobile.twitter.com/FioraAeterna/status/1292350716959289345
on peace of mind
https://twitter.com/Lizquidity/status/1299840943655247873
https://twitter.com/Lizquidity/status/1299840943655247873
on when to quit the game you already won and switch to a game you actually want to play https://twitter.com/grantadever/status/1303857690230362114
the original tweet at the top of the thread is wild too https://twitter.com/patbokonon/status/1216827137568595968
the thread that quoted the above tweet: https://twitter.com/patbokonon/status/1303851927743139842
I want to do WHAT I want, WHEN I want https://twitter.com/nerdposterino/status/1307763794907746310
Almost all conventional spending advice focuses entirely on one end and not the other, because it's very rare to both spend too extravagantly yet be too frugal and it's very easy to only notice the psychological trapdoors that you yourself encounter; it makes advice slippery
This is true of advice in general, but money seems to be a surprisingly powerful lightningrod-- I wonder if it's got to do with the potent mix of unambiguous numbers with the far more gooey psychology behind what these pieces of metal, paper, plastic, bits really mean to us
This doesn't make any one piece of advice "right" or "wrong", really
it just suggests an interesting question: what is the type of person who would benefit from this piece of advice, and are you that type of person? i find these to be a bit easier to answer :)
it just suggests an interesting question: what is the type of person who would benefit from this piece of advice, and are you that type of person? i find these to be a bit easier to answer :)
very fascinating thread, especially this tweet https://twitter.com/sadalsvvd/status/1339285332899094535
now i'm intrigued: poll time! are you american/ do you feel like you have a good handle on how your personal finances work?
https://twitter.com/AbstractFairy/status/1339333516493004801
https://twitter.com/AbstractFairy/status/1339333516493004801
poll disappeared for some reason:
are you american? / do you feel that you understand the financial world enough to not be completely lost?
