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jkaptur · 2020-02-10 · Original thread
You'd love the work of Barbara Ehrenreich, who has erudite, anthropological, book-length rants about this sort of thing (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Bright-sided-Relentless-Promotion-Pos...)
pkulak · 2013-10-25 · Original thread
Sounds like a pretty superficial happy to me. And it doesn't actually solve any of the problems that make you sad.

Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a really good book about this kind of thing: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002SKDGQ0

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