The Shit They Don't Tell You: Financial Abuse 2.0

How Banks and Advisors Quietly Exploit the Vulnerable

They'll tell you to trust the experts. They won't tell you those experts get paid more when you stay confused.

If you've ever walked out of a bank or an advisor's office feeling like you just got "handled," you probably did.

The financial industry thrives on one thing: your lack of clarity. The less you know, the more they control the terms. And if you're a survivor of abuse, trauma, toxic relationships, you're even more at risk. Why? Because the same patterns that kept you quiet in your personal life make you a dream client in theirs: compliant, trusting, and reluctant to challenge authority.

I know this game because I've played it from the inside. For years, I was in the corporate trenches managing portfolios, hitting the sales metrics that most advisors never touch. I've sat in those "strategy" meetings. I've heard the way we talk about "process" and "policy" when what we mean is: keep them dependent.