I think one of the genuinely Unpopular Opinions I don't bring up very often is that I really am a minimalist in terms of physical possessions, and people like to make a sport of dunking on that and calling it progressive, and it tends to get under skin and piss me off
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But I never, ever actually see anyone expressing the latter sentiment for real It's a giant strawman pinata Like if someone in the world actually thinks that and thinks people who own too much stuff are "materialistic" and "shallow" etc they sure as fuck aren't on Twitter
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Anyway it actually is very important to me, for deep psychological reasons, to feel like if I had to I could pack everything I own in the world into a car and drive into the sunset and vanish
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This isn't really because of actually being afraid I'll have to flee from people trying to kill or arrest me Although it isn't 100% *not* that, given the weird shit that's happened to me over the past several years
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I just wish people would be respectful that other people have different desires and needs It's not like I'm asking you to live with me
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There's a difference between how poor people and rich people do minimalism, and there're good reasons to dunk on the later (pushing us all to rent-not-own and hustle and live in a pod), people who do the 'eww they sleep on a box' thing are big jerks
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I mean whatever I'm not even moved by that I've never in my life actually *met* a rich person who was a "minimalist" and I've met *plenty* of rich people who just have really big houses filled with all kinds of crap, as is traditional They piss me off a lot more
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people...have strong, value-based feelings about this?
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