Good news never lasts
A recent WiseBread post discusses how people’s standards of living tended to rise linearly before the advent of credit cards, and how they don’t necessarily now because credit-card holders can borrow money against their future to raise their standards of living in the present. The author, Philip Brewer, discusses being deliberate about raising one’s standard […]
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