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Why financial failure feels like moral failure

I defaulted on my credit cards and I feel like a criminal even though I know millions of people are in the same situation, but shame is not rational.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cultural conflation of economic success with personal worth transforms structural economic problems into experiences of individual moral inadequacy.

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