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When success contradicts your fundamental worldview

I grew up thinking rich people were evil and now I am one, and I don't know how to reconcile my old beliefs with my current reality.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic mobility can create cognitive dissonance between inherited values and lived experience.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Identity and money — what wealth does to selfhood?”

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