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WealthMay 9, 2026

Lifestyle inflation is poverty wearing better clothes.

A person in expensive clothes with empty pockets.
Zero Question

Did your income grow, or did your prison get renovated?

Reflection

Earning more is not the same as becoming freer. Sometimes income rises, but so does the cost of pretending.

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