Bewildered is a good way to put it. He's on a financial dissociative fugue. He could pay off his $90k in student loans in, what, a year, and is choosing aggressive and risky investments instead -- and still feeling unhealthy amounts of anxiety about money? It's like he's piling up plates at a buffet when he already ate dinner and he's allergic to all the food.
By aetataureate on I Made $570K Last Year, But I Don't Feel Rich (In Fact, I Feel Worried)
Bewildered is a good way to put it. He's on a financial dissociative fugue. He could pay off his $90k in student loans in, what, a year, and is choosing aggressive and risky investments instead -- and still feeling unhealthy amounts of anxiety about money? It's like he's piling up plates at a buffet when he already ate dinner and he's allergic to all the food.