Partners in Fire has always been about lifting everyone up and bringing to light policies that work to prevent others from achieving financial independence. In that vein, we’ve written about poverty traps, stagnant wages, family values, UBI, healthcare, and a ton of other policies that work to keep people poor. We’ve also written about gender …
Whether you believe in it or not, the just world fallacy impacts your life. It influences many decisions that people make, whether financial, political, or just day-to-day. The effects are all around you. So what, exactly, is the just world fallacy, and how does it impact your financial life? What is the Just World Fallacy? …
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Isn’t the middle class where most of us aspire to be? It’s the house, the marriage, the single-family home with the white picket fence. Being middle class means summer barbecues, a two-week vacation every year, and traditional retirement. If the middle class is so great, why is there a middle-class trap? The Middle-Class Trap I …
A few weeks ago, the government passed a two trillion-dollar stimulus package to try to help people through the COVID-19 pandemic. But the reality is that stimulus package isn’t enough. It doesn’t do enough to help see regular people through the most trying time we’ve ever experienced, and it definitely isn’t timely enough. The Stimulus …
The gender pay gap is one of the most polarizing of all the women’s equality issues. There are so many people who will say that the gender pay gap isn’t real, is a myth, is over, never existed. Why is this? Why do so many people have such differing opinions on what should be a …
The American Dream is built on a myth. If you work hard, you’ll be successful and be able to move up in society. You’ll be able to give your kids a better life than you had. Although that is true for some, especially those born into the middle class, it isn’t true for everyone. This …
I hate to be pessimistic, but the reality of the world that we live in is that nothing is free. Sure, some websites may offer free access to the majority of people, and some companies may offer freebies, but those things aren’t exactly free. The company is going to get its reward, whether that be …
I got sick this week. It wasn’t the flu (I was tested). It was just a random viral infection. But that sucker knocked me out! I was in bed for three days. And I was coughing, sneezing, wheezing, blowing ungodly amounts of gunk out of my nose and just generally under the weather for over …
With 2019 at an end, it’s a great time to look back and see whether we accomplished our goals for the year. I know these goals recap posts probably aren’t the most engaging – who cares whether some random blogger achieved her yearly goals? But I care, and it helps me understand my own personal …
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” -Isaac Asimov The threat of automation is often thought about as a futuristic crisis. It won’t affect us for the next twenty or so years, so why should we worry about it? Well, I hate to break it …
