Why is our stress system more suited for “getting attacked by lions” than modern financial worries?
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Being attacked by a lion is a rapid event, something that can be prepared for, responded to, and survived/died to. This results in acute stress: stress with an obvious onset and defined duration.
Financial stress is what’s call chronic stress: It doesnt have a specific moment it started (usually) and its longlasting and doesnt have an obvious solution/result.
This is in fact something humans didn’t really evolve to deal with. Even things like preparing for winter, technically a chronic stress, had very defined paths to survive.
The closest humanity would have come wouljd have been widespread diseases, famines, things like that which were not easily understood nor overcomeable.
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