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It’s Not You. It’s a Failed Economy.

Why “You Weren’t Hard-Working Enough to Live a Decent Life” is a Self-Destructive Myth

umair
Apr 08, 2021
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It’s ironic and disturbing that everyone I know…in the richest society in the world…feels a profound, acute anxiety about…having enough money to live a decent life. And yet that’s precisely where America is.There’s a strange reality behind that anxiety, which has yet to have a name.

Literally nobody — nobody — can live a decent …

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