
The Business of Pain: How Pop Spirituality Sells Healing It Doesn’t Have
Pop spirituality in 2025:
🎭 Unhealed aunties on YouTube selling “trauma workshops.”
🎭 Canva affirmations as therapy.
🎭 Hobbies repackaged as “the work.”
This isn’t healing. It’s hustle. And it feeds on your pain.

Inside the Tech Dream Job
Privilege is hated until you have it. Then you perform it.
From family lifestyle upgrades to prestige tags — tech jobs gave us dignity. But they also turned us into gatekeepers. That’s the paradox.