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user-inactivated  ·  2938 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Oppressive Gospel of ‘Minimalism’

People with no spare money don't buy shit. HOLY FUCK, MAN! I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT.

When I see crap like this, I dig into the author a bit. He wrote a few listicles for metalfloss. we went to... fucking Tufts University. $63K A year tuition!?!?!? So, who the hell is this guy's parents? Dad was a manager at Boeing, mom was a Biology teacher. Obviously grew up with a whole hell of a lot more money and resources that I, or any of my friends did. Oh look he has a Tumblr, because of course he does. He Co-founded Study Hall that got a lot of press early this year because nobody has ever put together a shared working space before.

Oh, look, Brooklyn. Because he cannot be any more of a stereotype, here is an article with a picture of him

So what you have here is a kid who grew up with wealthy, educated parents writing articles that I like to call "No shit, Sherlock." But they wrap it up in a hipster pretense of "Oh, look ye plebs, for thine betters have written to offer you mine insights into how the world works."

This article is so hipster I grew a top knot reading it.