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The story that scarcity is a virtue may be the very thing keeping you from enough.
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In this episode
- Why praising belt-tightening can reinforce the wrong problem
- How scarcity language shapes the way we see budgets and resources
- A reframe for talking about abundance without ignoring real limits
- How the narratives we inherit quietly set the ceiling on what we expect
Topics in this episode
- abundance mindset
- resource management
- federal budget
About this episode
So often we’re proud that we stretched resources to make it work, as if just getting by is a virtue, rather than the problem. We proudly tighten our belts. In fact, the federal budget is praised more when it shrinks than when it grows. However, resources are more abundant than we acknowledge. How do we describe a world with abundant resources?
About Not My Narrative
Every society runs on stories it mistakes for facts. In America, those stories shape who gets help, who gets blamed, and who is left out.
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