i spend 35 to forty thousand dollars per year. That could seem like a lot or very little to certain people. But i've kept it at that level because that's my happiness level of spend. I'm not spending egregiously, but i'm also not going out and buying hundreds of dollars in ing every week. It's extremely hard to revert back once you get used to having nicer things. There's almost always an option that's much more expensive. And if you just repeat that over and over, your life can easily become ten x more expensive without generating any additional happiness. Then you find yourself competing with the joneses and not actually being any incomently er, but being stuck
Whether we'd like to admit it or not, finances have such a significant impact in our lives, both in micro and macro decision making. We also can't ignore how people have different relationships with their wealth, even at the same level of income.
In this episode, Calvin and Steph talk through the concept of being "post-economic", how they think about their "f*** you money" number, and how they manage their relationship with money.