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304 | Toxic Positivity

The Minimalists

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Being Middle Class Isn't a Function of Class and Circumstance

i was a coy i thought i had a personality, but turns out i'm just middle classso sometimes it's a function of class and circumstance. I read this book on serve, the history of class, and one of them is ome is isa is ingrained optimism. When people limited resources, they just have to constantly work with a horizon that feels really short. And then therefore it creates chaos, ecause they can't create predict ability. It's like every choice costs too much. So choi, when we're choice poor, it can be everything can feel intense and fraught. If you have an extended horizon link with the middle class, you do get that longer runway feeling

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