Here’s a financial superpower: Cultivating an ability to interact with desirable things through lenses other than acquisitiveness.
Art, homes, cars, clothes, gadgets, services–the world is full of beautiful, useful things! But they don’t all have to be ours in order to enjoy them and appreciate their existence.
In our culture, the act of buying–in and of itself with no respect to what is being bought and why–has become distorted into a sort of semi-sacred act of dopamine seeking, with the hit always fleeting and the user tending to try and make it up on volume.
It need not be this way!