If someone is worried month after month how they'll pay next month's bills no matter how hard they try, plus what will happen if a family member gets sick, they begin to experience a permanent state of trauma. But it isn't a mental health issue - it's an economic injustice issue.

Jan 18, 2022 · 5:17 AM UTC

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...... That's perpetuated by.... CAPITALISM.
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What if they live in a million dollar home and are worried month after month how to pay their next month’s bills? Is that still an economic justice issue?
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Does that mean you have cut ties with the Democrat party?
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“We need to discuss the underbellies of the shadow form of untethered capitalism that is now holding tens of millions of people in such survival and in such trauma.” Marianne Williamson
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Actually its both. I find Williamson’s past comments on mental health disturbing and perhaps misinformed, for instance clinical depression is not something that can be shaken off because things are just sad.
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No, it's an "I need to improve the quality of my life" issue. My grandparents busted their asses so my parents would have a better life. My parents busted their asses so I could have a better life. I bust my ass so my children have a better life. Seeing the cool pattern yet?
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I have had ptsd from finances. It started in college when I was given credit card offers I could not afford. Then when my student loans didn't cover tuition I had to drop out and never got a degree. Then several years later my (low) wages were garnished to pay off a student loan.
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@m_sendhil wrote a fascinating book detailing how scarcity affects behavior and psychological processes. When you realize these things affect all of us under the right conditions it becomes harder to look away. "Scarcity: Why Having So Little Means So Much" is the book.
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This is very real!
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I've spent about half my life in that situation and certainly did not acquire that victim mentality nor do I have trauma or mental health issues.
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