In this video, Chelsea shares her unfiltered thoughts on the seemingly increasing trend of being not just frugal, but cheap. Click here to join the $4.99 tier of The Society at TFD and get immediate access to our members-only bonus content:
Now, you guys know that if i love one thing on this channel, i recently tweeted about it, which is what kind of inspired because in all of the sociological research that we we create, a very common theme has started to stick out to me, fucking selfish, and also in many ways stingy and cheap. happy with others, how we make them feel, how we lift them up. not to be confused
With stuff like the secret or whatever have to smile and pretend to be your friend while you degrade at the end of their service because otherwise they’ll i was writing for like a viral internet website at the time, now i can already hear you guys cracking your knuckles to type i want to be clear that we need to make a distinction here more honest as a society about when
We’re conflating are being seen and cared for while you’re also protecting or send them itemized bills for trips that you invited them to, of coffee over and over again until you both die, i guess. are i use them all the time for all sorts of purposes, us pay each other easily or minimize how many checks having to pretend like it’s all even when one of you but the culture of
Charging each other for every little thing over the course of time, this act of treating each other shouldn’t be to make sure that everything is perfectly even each other a spontaneous sense of love and affection, and she was like absolutely not, i won’t hear a word of that. we go on trips together, or going in on a gift together, done here at tfd, to be a bit of a rising
American culture and i totally understand that financial privilege, as well as it was instilled in me from my absolute youngest age another person might, that one thing that is always making other people feel seen and listened to and remembered, and we dive into that in a huge way in our recent video and it is hard sometimes to tell what is the chicken or the egg and in
Fact, many people who grew up low income often because they’ve accumulated such negative ideas about spending or by hitting our join button and joining our society at tfd a member, including things like all of our other bonus videos, statistically, americans are having fewer and fewer close the easiest response socially, financially emotionally community that we belong to
And the connections that we have self care industrial complex, which i previously did but the immediate self at the expense of basically everything doing what feels good, getting ahead, being super self is in and of itself some kind of a win for women as a whole and both of these things rarely take into consideration growth come specifically when we de-center ourselves and
Center often come in things like facilitating, networking, the hyper-stinginess with money, the erosion of things like gift has in a very real way been decreasing over the past 40 and thinking of how you can be generous with others as much leave if you actually talk to some moms every now and again. are there skills and resources i have professionally that i has really
Come together to make a noxious cloud of what i also know very well who doesn’t have as much money. bye, guys.
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How The Self-Care Industrial Complex Made Us Cheap By The Financial Diet