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If I Gave You Now, $10 As A Gift, How Happy Would You Be? Would You Be Happy, Is The Marginal $10, The Best Use Of $10 You Can Use? Of Course Not. If I Have You A Cd, You Know Exactly What You Are Getting And You Will Have A Value For It. So, Money Has Lots Of Problems With It.

Imagine You Owe On Five Credit Cards, You Owe Five Debts. So Which Debt Should You Pay First? And The Answer Is Very Simple: You Should Pay The One With The Highest Interest Rate First. But That's Not What People Do.

For All Of Us, It's Very Hard To Think About Money, And Because Of That, We Need Help. In The Same Way That For All Of Us, It Is Hard To Eat Well, And We Need Some Help. The Poor Have A Particular Challenge, Which Is That Their Life Is Actually Much More Complex - And They're Much More Complex Cognitively.

You Can Think About Life As A Battle Between You And A Doughnut Shop. The Doughnut Shop Wants You To Eat Another Doughnut And Pay The Money, And You Want To Do It In The Short Term, But In The Long Term It's Not Good For You Either Financially Or From A Health Perspective.

We Can Think About How We Reduce The Pain In Paying. So, For Example, Credit Cards Are Wonderful Mechanisms To Reduce The Pain Of Paying. If You Go To A Restaurant And You Are Paying Cash, You Would Feel Much Worse Than If You Were Paying With Credit Card. Why? You Know The Price, There's No Surprise, But If You're Paying Cash, You Feel A Bit More Guilt.