A Note About Money Mindset

This may be a bold and radical statement but I’m going to say it anyway:
Money mindset is an outgrowth of slavery, colonialism, and capitalism.

If land wasn’t stolen and enclosed, if natural resources weren’t commodified and hoarded, if people were paid a living wage, and if all profit was shared with the workers who helped to create it, we wouldn’t need to work on our talk about our money mindset.

Money mindset says that lacking resources in order to live well is an individual problem.

That if you don’t have enough to live well, or if your family has historically never had enough to live well, all you need to do is change the way that you’re thinking about money…and poof, it’s fixed.

Rhetoric like this try’s to erase and hide centuries of harm, theft, and exploitation that makes it so some of us don’t have the resources needed to live well.

Would we still need so improve our money mindset if the land was freed? If profit was shared? If a living wage was paid? If we had universal healthcare? If higher education was free? If housing was affordable? If wealth and power were equitably shared?