"Philosopher Renata Salecl: 'Capitalism Is Humanity's Neurosis'"

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Even as an adult I do not care how others view the way I live. I do not own a car, so what. I do not live in a house, so what. I do not own fancy things or expensive clothing, so what. I live the way I want to live rather than live in order to receive positive affirmations from others.

Exactly, there is a big difference between living the way that you want to, which is what this particular philosopher argues on one hand (in this interview anyway, I'm not familiar with her otherwise) and choice being some sort of negative thing. People who chose to buck societal standards when it comes to the pursuit of wealth are still making a choice. I don't think the set of ideas that she has presented in this interview are very consistent with one another. Even the idea to somehow tie these ideas to capitalism doesn't make a lot of sense. The choice to not pursue material wealth is equally a capitalistic idea as the desire to pursue it. In Marxism everybody works. You have no way to opt out of the system.