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The budget culture
The budget culture is the damaging set of beliefs around money that rewards restriction and deprivation and promotes an unhealthy and fantastical ideal of financial success.
Budget culture sees measures like credit scores and debt as signifiers of financial health and prescribes spending restrictions as the first step to getting rich.
However, the problem is that budgeting doesn't work. Restriction and deprivation are unsustainable. Tracking spending is hard. Budgets don't account for the way lives work.
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The rise of financial advice
Before Ramsey’s call-in talk show, financial advice was mainly for people who were already wealthy. It assumed people with credit card debt who lived from paycheck to paycheck didn’t care about financial education.
Ramsey began speaking to a handpicked group of people that ...
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Countering budget culture is a tall order
It needs:
- Getting comfortable not knowing the “right” answers.
- Changing how you talk about money and how you use money.
- Pay transparency — with your friends, communities and colleagues, and in job descriptions.
- Seeing and acknowledging your privilege.
- Re...
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Budget culture makes money all about you
It's about your actions, responsibilities and mindset, yet no management method can fix rising housing costs with stagnant wages.
Instead of questioning your mindset and willpower to fix your money, question what's happening around you. Do you feel comfortable and safe in y...
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The broader problem with budget culture
The emphasis of budget culture is on individual responsibility and insisting that you can ignore access and privilege in our world. It condemns and oppresses anyone who doesn't live up to the ideal.
- However, the system isn’t designed for upward mobility. Ramsey’s famou...
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Conditioned to pursue wealth
Dave Ramsey's show encouraged people who'd been conditioned not to pursue wealth to now indulge in the fantasy of being rich. A perpetual brief is that a better life is within your grasp if you can manage your money right.
Other budding financial experts dropped Ramsey's re...
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Build the right budget
The most valuable part of budgeting is actually the process of building a budget correctly.
You build a budget based on looking at your actual spending over the previous few months. Get real numbers, not estimates. Dig through your bank statements and credit card statements and fi...
Ways to budget when you're broke
- Avoid immediate disaster. Request bill extensions or payments plans from creditors.
- Prioritize bills. See which bills must be paid first and set up a payment schedule based on your paydays.
- Ignore the 10% savings rule. It...
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