>>6999648if you are a minimalist in order to spend more time helping your local community, being a better father and role model, or reducing your impact on the environment, then it's good
if you are a minimalist in order to be a more efficient consumer, or to allow you spend money on superior technology, lavish vacation, or other things that are strictly a means of dopamine production, it's bad
furthermore, to go full uncle ted for a moment, the liberal often uses minimalism as a means of inoculation to the deep ennui produced by modern technological society, so that they can continue participating in it with less feelings of cognitive dissonance or distress
imagine a prisoner that decorates their prison cell to make it more appealing, that's what's happening in most cases
a normal prisoner would try to escape, it's a kind of stockholm syndrome, really
tl;dr: unless you're uncle ted or dick proenneke, minimalism is just playing dress-up with clown world
