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When your technical expertise becomes delivering economic bad news

I am a mechanic and I have to tell people their cars are dying when I know they cannot afford to replace them, watching their faces change as they calculate which parts of their lives will shrink. Some days I feel like I am diagnosing poverty instead of engines.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Professional knowledge can become a burden when it requires witnessing others' financial vulnerability and limited choices.

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