How to Money · Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Aja Evans distinguishes between what a person deserves as a human being and what they can afford financially. She argues that while everyone deserves to feel safe and well, this does not equate to the ability to afford every desire, challenging the notion that age or adult status automatically grants the right to specific expenditures.
“So one thing that I'm thinking about is when we have this idea of hey, I'm thirty five, I'm this age, I'm an adult, I should be able to afford that, where's that coming from? Because if that's coming from generations before you, we're living in a different time. It looks very different. So if you were expecting to have the same things that somebody would have had at your current age before you, like, we're we're not on the same playing field. The foundations look very different.”
“But what I will say is that what you deserve has nothing to do with what you can afford. Those are two very different things, and we connect them so quickly and easily when they have no business being connected. As a human being, we all deserve everything, right like, just as humans. I believe that, yes, we deserve to be where we want to be, feel safe, where we can be safe anywhere we walk around like, I just believe that that is a human right. So, yes, you deserve all the things, but it doesn't mean you can afford them.”