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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