Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPeople who grew up lower middle class can usually tell you the exact price of milk, bread, and petrol at any given moment. It's not habit. It's a background financial surveillance system their brain built in childhood and never turned off. - Silicon Canals
Childhood economic precarity creates automatic, lifelong price-tracking behaviors that persist regardless of current financial status, functioning as an unconscious survival mechanism.