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Why financial metrics can feel like moral judgments

My credit score dropped twenty points and I feel like I am a fundamentally bad person even though I know that makes no sense.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Numerical representations of financial behavior become internalized as assessments of personal worth.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and mental health?”

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