Rima Grace

I find myself feeling like that depending on the social circles that I'm around.

Like if I'm around people who are making a lot of money, I suddenly feel like I don't have enough.

And if I'm around another group of friends, I feel like I'm okay.

It is interesting how subjective it can feel based off of...

your environment, and not even your environment, but the assumptions you're making about your environment.

Yeah, so much of what we see are essentially the asset side of the balance sheet.

We see whether or not someone's a homeowner.

We don't see their mortgage.

We don't know if their family's helping them out.

Right.

We don't know if they're a second, third generation of family wealth or if they're generation zero.

Like we see whether or not someone has a nice car.

We don't see the interest rate and the auto loan on that.

And so we know that systematically people tend to de-emphasize the liability side of someone else's balance sheet when making judgments about other people.

Our imaginations want to fill the gaps and usually we try to fill it in ways that make us feel bad.

At least maybe that's how my brain works.

We should chat about that, Rima.

Let's dig more into that.

What's going on there?

That's true.