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Steven Manuel and Mark Parrett continue their conversation about poverty (10:30) as Mark reviews the book Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mullainathan. It describes, with research, how “not having enough” impacts people. It makes us stupid, insecure, impulsive, makes us spend money unnecessarily, etc. Mark tells about a dumb purchase he made at Princeton (38:30), dealings with poor tenants (44:30), hamster-wheel living (49:40), and all the gross things that a poverty spirit produces. Here at Abe’s Wallet… we hate poverty (and love PLANNING, which is one of the antidotes to it)!
Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel sit down to shoot the bull, then talk about Seasons of Imbalance (12:20), including seasons of unusual work to...
Lately I’ve run into more and more talk from companies who will use language of family (which makes my skin crawl), even religion, to...
On this special episode of Abraham’s Wallet, I sit down with Jeremy Pryor and we take a look at symbolic tragedies through a spiritual...
