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   Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 14:34:44 JST Annika Backstrom

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   • Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎

   @austinkocher There's an app called "Kind Words" where you post and reply to short anonymous messages. Seeing someone explain their family's struggles to make ends meet while saying "money doesn't buy happiness" was heartbreaking

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     Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎 (austinkocher@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 14:34:45 JST Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎

     The phrase 'money can't buy happiness' is actually super gaslighting because not having money to pay for basic things is a legitimate source of a tremendous amount of suffering and despair.