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Wellness Is A Waste Of Time
How “wellness” is often one big con
There’s a new movement in the world, and it’s amazingly widespread. From beaches in Australia to coffee shops in Paris, from Silicon Valley in the US to the streets of Barcelona, people are hopping on a swathe of health trends that fall under one, all-encompassing label.
I’m talking, of course, about wellness.
Wellness is something of an amorphous term. If you check Wikipedia, it’s “an umbrella term for pseudoscientific health interventions”. If you read wellness articles, that includes activities from yoga to bulletproof coffee and almost everything in between. Want to market your new infrared sauna? Call it a wellness spa and suddenly it’s all the rage.
The problem is that, despite offering to take you to a state of health that was previously unknown to humanity, most wellness services suffer from the same underlying issue.
You see, wellness is almost entirely a scam for rich people.
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