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you don't need consumerism or mass media to be happy (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In capitalism, one must first pay for basic necessities like food and shelter before anything else. For some people who make low wages this requires an amount of time and effort that interferes with their leisure time.

That said, there are also some people who think they are in this category when in reality their stress is due to self-imposed standards of living that are higher than necessary. Or anxiety and other psychological problems that could be addressed through non-material strategies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

there are also some people who think they are in this category when in reality their stress is due to self-imposed standards of living that are higher than necessary. Or anxiety and other psychological problems that could be addressed through non-material strategies.

also encouraged and exacerbated by capitalism (the former - to create the illusion of a "middle class" for people to aspire to and vote against their own actual material conditions, the latter - by commodifying health care and pathologizing anything that harms "productivity")