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How does everyone have so much money?

How does everyone have so much money?

Wah! Why is everyone richer than me?

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Eden Dranger
Aug 16, 2024
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Your friends are uploading weekly vacation pictures, your neighbor always has the latest gadgets, and your best friend just moved in with their bae and bought a new house! How are they able to spend that kind of money when you can barely afford next months rent?

Maybe they’ve come into a lump sum of money, maybe they’re ignoring their crippling debt, maybe their parents are financing their lifestyle.

The truth is that these fancy holidays, the house and the latest gadgets are the instagramable and boast-worthy results of a series of decisions hidden behind closed doors. What we don’t see are the compromises.

This is why it seems like everyone else has more money than you -  MarketWatch

It’s easy to feel like everyone has more money than you. We live in a world of conspicuous consumption, where people flaunt everything from fancy cars to designer clothes to luxury vacations both in real life and on social media. But whenever I feel like everyone is rich but me, I try to take a step back and put things into perspective.

There are a ton of different factors.   

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