I think it illustrates a certain latent recognition among young people that quality-of-life standards are falling and our infrastructure hasn't been built to endure the long haul. But because everything has to be bound up in aesthetics, we're going to turn "living cheaply" into "instagram reality".
Like so much else in a capitalist state, doing this well either requires a super-abundance of free time or enough money to fake it. So, only really useful for the unemployed, the professionally online, and the Marie Antonito types. For everyone else, it's just looking less miserable than you feel.
It's one-part Tiny Home, one-part Romanticized Survivalist
I think it illustrates a certain latent recognition among young people that quality-of-life standards are falling and our infrastructure hasn't been built to endure the long haul. But because everything has to be bound up in aesthetics, we're going to turn "living cheaply" into "instagram reality".
Like so much else in a capitalist state, doing this well either requires a super-abundance of free time or enough money to fake it. So, only really useful for the unemployed, the professionally online, and the Marie Antonito types. For everyone else, it's just looking less miserable than you feel.