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Why Well-Meaning Help Can Feel Like Humiliation

My wealthy friends think they're being helpful by offering to pay for things but it just makes me feel like their charity case.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Good intentions around economic inequality can inadvertently reinforce power dynamics and create shame.

Ideas that help explain it
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