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There's another way of looking at this, which is minimalism as symptom rather than cause. Most millenials, even the upper-middle class ones, see a future with
by samirillian 7y ago
There's another way of looking at this, which is minimalism as symptom rather than cause.
Most millenials, even the upper-middle class ones, see a future with less material prospects than their parents had. I do not believe that minimalism is fundamentally a cultural phenomenon driven by the wealthy, but by the impoverished.
You can say that Marie Kondo and Bauhaus have some subterranean aesthetic connection, but I think Marie Kondo and the 40 year old guy living alone in his "tiny home," watching Netflix, have a much deeper cultural connection.
- lmm 7y agoDisagree. The people Kondo et al are popular with are successful urban-dwellers who could easily afford the suburban lifestyle of their parents if they wanted it. But they've seen that that lifestyle does not bring happiness: hours spent sitting in a car so that they can work all day to afford said fancy car and a huge house they barely live in full of stuff they barely use.
- scooble 7y agoIn a cynical moment it has struck me that recent lifestyle trends seem almost designed to market poverty to the middle classes. #vanlife as a lifestyle rather than simply 'living in your car'. A 'tiny house village' for people who don't want to say 'trailer park' etc.