I’ve bought my way out of 100x more discomfort and misery with $ than I’ve endured. It isn’t cheap, but it isn’t as expensive as you tend to imagine when you’re young and poor. And most of what I can’t buy my way out of at middle-class income level, Bill Gates can’t either
I’ve yet to encounter a situation of misery so deep it can’t be made even worse by taking money out of it. Either first-hand or as a spectator.
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Oh for sure, I’d probably be dead if I couldn’t the medical care but within the same band people who just the money as palliative care without any desire for psychological transformation just create psychological/trauma debt that builds up anyway
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Sure. Such growth is often only possible because of the space created by using money to clear away some of the toughest parts of the misery. And not all who can buy such space have the strength to use it wisely. Sounds like you did, which speaks to your strength

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We just get good at pretending to be sane enough to stabilize the $ flows needed to keep misery at bay and protect a small clear space for better things. Sanity is overrated.