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Minimalism as expressed on the web is mostly a well-off consumerist thing, oddly enough. It's largely about selling nice (or at least "premium-mediocre") stuff
by corrral 4y ago
Minimalism as expressed on the web is mostly a well-off consumerist thing, oddly enough. It's largely about selling nice (or at least "premium-mediocre") stuff to people with money. Natural that it's tied up with expensive travel, too—that's the aspiration hook that gets people who really don't need the stuff to bust out the ol' credit card.
- dubswithus 4y agoThe products he seems to recommend look like knockoffs and incredibly cheap. But often if something breaks while you are abroad you pay 2-3x the price to replace it. And even then the replacement might be of horrible quality too but you're desperate and suck it up. Except his Anker brick. I love Anker.
- mc32 4y agoThis reminds me of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470 which has quite on-point comments roasting D Curtis.
- bowsamic 4y agoVitalik's post seems to be a counterexample against what you claim here