In Defense of Rugged Individualism and Self Improvement

A Response to Jessica Wildfire

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I’ve been reading on Medium since 2017 and one of my favorites writers on the platform is Jessica Wildfire.

It’s great, because she is a very clever, very compelling writer with a very different worldview from me. So I find myself disagreeing a lot, but it’s good to be challenged.

She recently wrote a piece called “It’s Time to Ditch the Abundance Mindset — It Paves the Way to Inequality” that I thought it would be good to respond to. We have a few points of disagreements, but are clearly looking at this from different sides.

I think everyone wins when writers interact with each others’ ideas.

Here is her article, if you want to read it in its entirety first:

It’s Time To Ditch The Abundance Mindset — It Paves The Way to Inequality

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