# How Are We Supposed to Live on That?

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Podcast: [*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*](https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663)
Published: 2026-05-24T22:54:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/How-Are-We-Supposed-to-Live-on-That-e3jsv68
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## Resource

This episode takes a single scene from the TV series *Billions* — a wife snapping "How are we supposed to live on that?" despite sitting on tens of billions of yen — and uses it as a lens for thinking about why financial anxiety doesn't scale the way we expect it to. It touches on a piece of research suggesting that even people with savings over 100 million yen often still carry money anxiety, and explores why: not because the numbers are wrong, but because the future stays undefined, and an undefined future keeps the mind on alert. There's a close look at what happens when a certain standard of living becomes normal — the house, the travel habits, the schools, the social circle — and why lowering that standard isn't simply a matter of spending less. It starts to feel like rewriting your own sense of who you are. The episode also draws on a description of anxiety as "fear of a vague, possible future threat," using it to reframe the real source of financial unease: not the size of a balance, but the shapelessness of what's ahead. A quiet reflection on what it might actually mean to feel like enough is enough — and why putting that into your own words, rather than chasing a larger number, may be what genuinely helps.

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