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The Self-Care Lie: How Capitalism Exploits You for Wellness

Modern self-care is a trap that privatizes systemic problems like burnout and anxiety. covers: The co-optation of Audre Lorde's radical, political concept of self-care by neoliberal capitalism. How individual consumerism replaced the fight for systemic change. The hidden global cost of the wellness industry. Exploitative supply chains for healing crystals from Madagascar, Myanmar, and the DRC, involving dangerous artisanal mining and child labor. The cycle of poverty and child labor in Madagascar's vanilla industry, driven by global demand. A systemic alternative: The First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum Framework, which treats wellness as a collective, cultural responsibility. States that modern self-care, presented as an individual consumer journey, is a trap that privatizes systemic problems and blames individuals for burnout and anxiety. It explains that the radical political concept of self-care, originally articulated by Audre Lorde as self-preservation and political warfare for collective survival against oppressive systems, has been ideologically stolen and co-opted by neoliberal capitalism. This shift promotes individual coping mechanisms and commodified products as substitutes for systemic change, amplified by social media. The video details the global cost of this individualized wellness, tracing exploitative supply chains for products like healing crystals and vanilla. Crystals are often sourced from dangerous artisanal mines in places like Madagascar, Myanmar, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, involving child labor and sometimes financing conflict due to a lack of transparency and regulation. Vanilla from Madagascar, despite high global prices, traps smallholder farmers in precarity due to local inflation, leading to endemic child labor in hazardous conditions and compromising education. The video concludes by presenting the First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum Framework in Canada as a systemic alternative, redefining wellness as a collective responsibility rooted in culture and addressing the root causes of trauma rather than individual symptoms.