i'm a supah-rich bitch (reframing "wealth")

when every single system we live and breathe has made accessing and stockpiling money (or credit) the gateway to basic needs and security of mind and body it really is difficult to remember that money isn't the only thing worth living for.

what a fucking privilege it must be to have so much money or credit you wouldn't need to ever actually really think or stress about it...

not just disgusting Scrooge McFuck Bezosian rich-greed but even the comfortably "I want it - I just buy it/ I owe it - I just pay it/ I want to travel there - I just go" strifelessly well-off set; the ones that have enough they don't ever have to count down to the penny or worry their debit card will not clear at the till or constantly choose between rent or food or bills every. single. day.

(and if you're prone to poor-bashing or think it's just about "working hard" please educate yourself re: all the forms of inequalities in the world, starting with "class inequality", "labour inequality," and "gender inequality." A very awesome place to start is with the inimitable Michael Parenti's 2:21 minute summary: "Wealth Creates Poverty")

the classically stark polarities between rags-draped starvation and obscene wealth aside, it's the consumer-grade ho-hum financial comfort that most of us living in working poverty or other forms of urban poverty would gladly trade to have. (i.e. - "i'll take the unending hamster wheel grind - just please let me lose the acute stress about basic needs and mundane comforts.")

so unending it escapes even awareness or reflection, true psychological freedom from constant crisis-managing money-stress is an unimaginable dream for the greater many... and from what i've observed over the past two-plus decades of doing non-profit work, this kind of comfort seems to go hand in hand with the oceans of unchecked privilege that are quite rampant in the social justice / helping sector.

so how poor are you on the scale that measures wealth by anything other than money?

me? i'm a supah-rich bitch.  #kablinggg