Most people regularly fall into the trap of defining their value by these external factors; you likely believe that every failure you have depletes your value, that your salary equates your value, and that your body shape defines your social value. People all fall into this trap because they’ve been indoctrinated into a system which treats them like commodities: they sell their time to pay the rent and survive; they wear advertisements for companies, and they sell even more of their time to fund social media platforms and streaming services.

