Good food for thought. I believe this trend originated from the democratic idea of each person being able to reach anything in life. Since this rarely happens, and the increasing amount of middle-class people pushes the so-called positioning assets to higher levels (making them more unreacheable), the celebration of poverty becomes a way to exorcise failure or the simple fact that life is normal for most of the people and exceptional only for few (thanks to their skills, personal wealth or luck). Social media are amplifying this phenomenon
I agree so much with this. I am conflicted though because I feel that believing that anything is possible is like a placebo effect and can help us improve our lives but then at the same time if we fail we feel it is all our fault when it isn't. All in all though, I feel that pretending to be poor or to romanticize it is insulting.
Good food for thought. I believe this trend originated from the democratic idea of each person being able to reach anything in life. Since this rarely happens, and the increasing amount of middle-class people pushes the so-called positioning assets to higher levels (making them more unreacheable), the celebration of poverty becomes a way to exorcise failure or the simple fact that life is normal for most of the people and exceptional only for few (thanks to their skills, personal wealth or luck). Social media are amplifying this phenomenon
I agree so much with this. I am conflicted though because I feel that believing that anything is possible is like a placebo effect and can help us improve our lives but then at the same time if we fail we feel it is all our fault when it isn't. All in all though, I feel that pretending to be poor or to romanticize it is insulting.