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When the Economics of Helping Professions Exclude Those Who Need Help

I'm a therapist and I love helping people but I'm drowning in student debt and have to charge rates that exclude the people who need help most.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The financialization of care creates a cruel irony where those called to serve often cannot afford to serve those most in need.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist economics — right livelihood?”

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