Nicole Hollar argues that financial stability doesn't mean being rich, just covering your basics with a little left over. When you're not stressed about money, everything else gets easier. Chronic financial strain keeps you tense no matter what else is going well.
So we want to have our career and finances in order because if those feel stable, then we generally feel more stable. We all have heard, I'm sure, about the basic needs of a person and some of that is financial stability. It doesn't mean you have to be a gazillionaire, but you want to feel that you're comfortable and at minimum having some of your basic needs met plus a little bit more so you don't feel strapped all the time because that makes for a really tense experience for a person too.
