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Edition #10: Compare Up for Inspiration, Down for Appreciation

Plus! No More Wings, Gini Index, Crypto Savings

Oz Chen
5 min readOct 22, 2021

Hey there. You have enough, and you are enough.

We’re at 450 subscribers; share my newsletter with your friends so we can all get feel rich together.

Last week, I talked about having skin in the game.

Today I’ll chat about financial self comparison, a heart-warming Youtube video, the Gini index, and end with this week’s tip on crypto savings accounts.

My friends once told me about a guy named Dan Bilzerian.

Do a quick search and you’ll see a buff bearded bro with babes, boats, and enough bud and bullets to start a cannabis army. Oh wait.

His social media profile is the wet dream of every red-blooded American male.

I had to unfollow him.

I knew that if I kept looking at his feed, I would grow despondent, unable to shake the contrast between his excessive wealth and abs to my plebeian existence.

*Shakes fist at sky* Damn you Dan Bilzerian!

Self comparison is a hell of a drug, and social media is the needle that administers it.

Social media makes us feel poorer

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Oz Chen
Oz Chen

Written by Oz Chen

Writing about personal finance OzChen.com and UX Design on UXBeginner.com

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