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The writing is a bit sneering and sarcastic, but I think it's pretty clear this is entirely about the new-agey-too-expensive-shady-pseudo-science kind of wellne

The writing is a bit sneering and sarcastic, but I think it's pretty clear this is entirely about the new-agey-too-expensive-shady-pseudo-science kind of wellness and not about eating right and excercising. And this is not at all about people who can't afford insurance - the tagline is "Why are so many privileged people feeling so sick? Luckily, there’s no shortage of cures.".

Mz 9y ago
I was responding in part to this: There’s something grotesque about this industry’s emerging at the moment when the most basic health care is still being denied to so many in America and is at risk of being snatched away from millions more. If you think only rich people are going to read Goop and buy crap off of it, I think you are mistaken. And that quote (above) is basically where I stopped reading. The title on HN now has Wellness in quotes. But it is not actually in quotes on the article itself. I think it is important to make a clearer distinction between actual wellness programs that do genuine good and the stuff that tries to market itself that way and is more questionable. For personal reasons, I have a lot of mixed feelings about this. But I think this is an important distinction to make.
- coldtea 9y ago
  >If you think only rich people are going to read Goop and buy crap off of it, I think you are mistaken. And that quote (above) is basically where I stopped reading. Do people think that telling others they "stopped reading" an article before it was over makes their opinion on its contents more valid than having actually read it all AND calmly? >If you think only rich people are going to read Goop and buy crap off of it, I think you are mistaken. Maybe not "only", but mostly rich people will. Including middle/upper middle class people who can afford all they need, even if not technically rich. For certain, very few single black mothers working their arses off in minimal wage to make ends meet will go to check the Good catalogue...
  - Mz 9y ago
    For certain, very few single black mothers working their arses off in minimal wage to make ends meet will go to check the Good catalogue... Do you have some kind of data or evidence on that? Or is that just racist, classist assumption?
    - coldtea 9y ago
      Do you just add "racist, classist" randomly in an attempt to make the other party look like a racist rich person or something? Or does "poor single black mothers don't spend much on Goop or Whole Foods" (or whatever analogous) sound like a remark KKK would make to you? Because it sounds like a simple statement of fact. My observation comes from knowing actual people in the real world in those situations (think of that!), and Goop is not part of their priorities when they can't make ends meet. You don't need a statistics team and a nation-wide survey to make a general observation about people and or society. Living outside an echo chamber and or caring for people will do.
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Mz 9y ago

I was responding in part to this: There’s something grotesque about this industry’s emerging at the moment when the most basic health care is still being denied to so many in America and is at risk of being snatched away from millions more. If you think only rich people are going to read Goop and buy crap off of it, I think you are mistaken. And that quote (above) is basically where I stopped reading. The title on HN now has Wellness in quotes. But it is not actually in quotes on the article itself. I think it is important to make a clearer distinction between actual wellness programs that do genuine good and the stuff that tries to market itself that way and is more questionable. For personal reasons, I have a lot of mixed feelings about this. But I think this is an important distinction to make.

coldtea 9y ago
>If you think only rich people are going to read Goop and buy crap off of it, I think you are mistaken. And that quote (above) is basically where I stopped reading. Do people think that telling others they "stopped reading" an article before it was over makes their opinion on its contents more valid than having actually read it all AND calmly? >If you think only rich people are going to read Goop and buy crap off of it, I think you are mistaken. Maybe not "only", but mostly rich people will. Including middle/upper middle class people who can afford all they need, even if not technically rich. For certain, very few single black mothers working their arses off in minimal wage to make ends meet will go to check the Good catalogue...
- Mz 9y ago
  For certain, very few single black mothers working their arses off in minimal wage to make ends meet will go to check the Good catalogue... Do you have some kind of data or evidence on that? Or is that just racist, classist assumption?
  - coldtea 9y ago
    Do you just add "racist, classist" randomly in an attempt to make the other party look like a racist rich person or something? Or does "poor single black mothers don't spend much on Goop or Whole Foods" (or whatever analogous) sound like a remark KKK would make to you? Because it sounds like a simple statement of fact. My observation comes from knowing actual people in the real world in those situations (think of that!), and Goop is not part of their priorities when they can't make ends meet. You don't need a statistics team and a nation-wide survey to make a general observation about people and or society. Living outside an echo chamber and or caring for people will do.
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