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Re:Marie Kondo betrays her whole premise by launching e-comm... by smacktoward on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:13PM (#21599685)
There is also the way that, in a capitalist system, every message eventually gets swallowed up and transformed into a way to sell products. It's just the nature of the beast. The hippies started out preaching the importance of love over material wealth, and their message ended up getting twisted into a sales pitch for Coca-Cola (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM2eLhvsSM).

So in the end, it doesn't really matter much what Marie Kondo's message is; once it became popular the system was inevitably going to fold, spindle and mutilate it until it could be used to sell products, because that's what the system does. It deflects critique by absorbing and redirecting it, and it is really damn good at doing so.

Re:Marie Kondo betrays her whole premise by launching e-comm... by stareatgoats on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:55PM (#21600125)
Exactly so. And by the same token, every sensory impulse capable of grabbing human attention will eventually be filled to the brim with ads until we can't experience anything without expecting, nay wanting, accompanying banners, jingles, (and no doubt soon; smells) that entice us to buy.

Homo Consumens: https://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Homo%20Consume...

Re:Marie Kondo betrays her whole premise by launching e-comm... by unforeseen9991 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:18PM (#21599731)
This was perfectly said and articulated, thanks
Re:Marie Kondo betrays her whole premise by launching e-comm... by sifar on Thursday November 21, 2019 @11:42PM (#21602565)
The key is to not make it popular. Have a barrier to entry.
Re:Marie Kondo betrays her whole premise by launching e-comm... by danharaj on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:45PM (#21600025)
Capitalism vores everything.