Yo, I’ve always loved this quote by Paul McCartney from a 1990 Rolling Stones interview. Lately, it’s been on my mind a lot. “Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now let’s write a swimming pool.’ We said it out of innocence. Out of normal, fucking working-class glee that we were able to write a ‘swimming pool.’ For the first time in our lives, we could actually do something and earn money." Your favorite finance friend,
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1. 💔 I’m Getting Divorced, & I Have $80k Of Student Loan Debt. How Should We Split It? (Paco for Refinery29) In this month’s Taking Stock, we're talking about how to deal with dividing student loans during a divorce. 2. 💰 How Crypto and NFTs Are Funding Ukraine's Resistance Against Russia (CNET) 3. 👨🏫 ATM charges, overdraft fees, and bank fees that cost you money, explained (Vox) 4. 🛒 How Ikea tricks you into buying more stuff (The Hustle) The home furnishings giant enlists a maze-like layout, cheap food, and crafty psychology to get you to fill up your cart. 5. 🤓 A bookkeeping thing - Signs It's Time to Switch Bookkeepers (HYG Original) 6. 🏦 The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now (The Atlantic) The internet has always financialized our lives. Web3 just makes that explicit. “You might find these new digital assets exciting or terrifying. Either way, the absurdity is only going to grow. The natural endpoint of blockchains and NFTs—the golden promise of Web3—is that every aspect of human life, as recorded by computers, will be collateralized. Just think how excited or terrified you’ll feel then.” 7. 🤷♀️ ‘I More So Consider Myself a Con Artist Than Anything’ (Intellegencer) What Danielle Miller learned at Horace Mann and Rikers. “’It was a pretty wild experience. Probably one of the most insane that I’ve had personally. And I’ve been in two wars,’ he says. ‘This girl is just so clever, man. You know, if she would have just channeled her powers for good, she would have been great. She could have been helping people.’” 8. 👧 May I Disinherit My Right-Wing Daughters? (The New York Times) “Even if your daughters are, in some sense, more sinned against than sinning, you could reasonably worry that putting resources in their hands will allow them to support destructive causes. Here’s a proposal: Why not leave some money for your granddaughter to use when she reaches adulthood — she might very well defect from her mother’s political orientation, as her mother defected from yours — and give the rest to causes you care about, perhaps including ones that are working to fortify voting participation and strengthen effective public health education. It’s your estate. You raised your daughters, which is what you owed them. Anything you do beyond this is up to you. But don’t think of your updated will as a way to punish them for their mistaken beliefs. Think of it as taking measures to prevent your assets from being used to bad effect.”
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