The Worst Money Advice: “If You Aren’t Rich, Don’t Buy Things You like.”

Here’s a more empathic and helpful alternative to money-shaming

Ben Le Fort
Making of a Millionaire
4 min readJan 3, 2022

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I spend a lot of time on “money Twitter.” There’s a lot of great conversations happening in this space, but there’s also a lot of self-aggrandizing platitudes and money shaming.

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I write about behavioral finance & evidence based investing. Want to work with me? e: info@benlefort.com Here's my Substack: https://benlefort.substack.com/