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by pavlov 1356 days ago
> “I have realized that the thing I needed to learn is that my net worth is not my self-worth.”

This is a really important point. I’m not a native English speaker. When I first heard an American use the expression “he’s worth X dollars”, it felt extremely wrong. Someone’s worth should never be attached to a dollar value!

I’ve got used to it by now, but I still wish Americans would come up with a more constructive way of talking about wealth than “personal worth.”