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Salient Weekly Challenge: Everything Costs Money

Within the span of a week, I’ll be trying to accomplish a long-term task just to see if it’s possible, and to see what I can get out of it. Life lessons, skills, resilience training? The stimulation alone should be enough motivation. When I was in high school, I badly wanted a Nintendo Switch. The retail price was about $550, and what I discovered motivated me to save was equating everything to the value of a Switch: If you save your birthday money, that’ll be a quarter of a

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