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When Market Forces Make Saving Feel Pointless

I've been saving for a house for four years but prices keep rising faster than my savings and I'm starting to wonder if I should just spend the money on living my life instead.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

External circumstances that outpace personal discipline can create existential questions about whether effort and restraint actually matter.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Saving and the psychology of deferred gratification?”

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