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🏳️‍🌈Queer feminist anticapitalist financial educator + business design consultant / facilitator/ podcast: Have a Nice Life / I contain multitudes
I think a lot about how “having enough money” I think a lot about how “having enough money” feels like an ever-elusive, moving goal – and then I remember that "goal" is made up by people who benefit when I live in fear, quietly contribute to over-consumerism and taxes, and that money is only part of what can contribute to what each of us need. Read more on my blog...and shout out to Ladies Get Paid for the shirt from forever ago!! #enough #scarcity #moneyfear #makingit #resources
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Propaganda I'm not falling for: money alone can't Propaganda I'm not falling for: money alone can't make you safe, secure, or fix all your problems.⁠ ⁠ Can it fix some? oh for SURE. Can it get you out of a bad situation? DEFINITELY. Can it buy you time? UH HUH. ⁠ ⁠ But it's a fiction that somehow just having money is enough. It's a story in our society that drives us apart from each other, chasing financial success instead of building strong connections, and it's rotten from the inside.
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– Dara B., dareconsulting.com

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