Making feel guilty and awkward around earning money is such a great tool of social control. I've kinda got to begrudgingly respect whatever asshole came up with it.
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I always thought this was just because it's hard to be friends with people with very different incomes than yourself. So it's awkward to make more money because it strains your relationships.
I think that's part of it, yeah, but it seems to be a phenomenon even among similar salary people.
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(Also I wouldn't rule out "It's difficult to be friends with people with very different salaries" as part of the *mechanism* of social control rather than an innocent intrinsic fact of life)
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I think the innocent explanations "people with different salaries have different cost/time tradeoffs" and "it sucks to always be the one on the receiving end of charity" are sufficient.
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