“The self-care movement is just capitalism convincing you to commodify your own emotional labor”
Agree
- Wellness industry profits from manufactured needs
- Self-care requires constant product consumption
- Individual solutions ignore systemic problems
- Optimization culture is productivity in disguise
Disagree
- Taking care of yourself is genuinely necessary
- Not all self-care costs money
- Personal wellbeing and systemic change coexist
- Dismissing self-care harms vulnerable people most
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