A few years ago, I was really depressed. I’d never been depressed before (I’d previously thought depression was something “weak people” experience). My depression was debilitating. It resulted in me making way less money which, in turn, made me way more desperate.
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I would wake up and spend the whole day thrashing, trying to make money so I could survive. I didn’t think about the future; I was consumed by my need to survive. As soon as I started making more money, my desperation subsided. I started dreaming about the future again.
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I’m lucky: one of the big reasons I survived my depression was my access to public health care. Early on, I went and saw my family doctor and she helped me work out a plan for getting better. (I also paid for a therapist, which was massively helpful).
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Relief from present-day scarcity gives you the space to have future-based dreams.
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The current research here is pretty clear: “Lacking the resources to satisfy one’s needs has a profound impact on [long-term, goal-oriented] decision making.”https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6575633/ …
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“Creativity’s biggest enemy is desperation.” This is my post on 2014. It over-emphasizes “rugged individualism” but it describes the research on the cognitive affects of “money stress” in more detail:https://justinjackson.ca/desperation
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100% seems like the public discourse is slowly leading to some form of a UBI don’t you think?
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Would be amazing to see this happen.
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I like it. It's next to impossible to think about 5 years from now when you're not sure if food will be on the table tomorrow.
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Yup exactly. This was my experience a few years ago: https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1251949760975564800?s=21 …https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1251949760975564800 …
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