1. Create product.
2. Market product as a vice.
3. ???
4. Profit.
"You deserve it! Have an ice cream and a spa day, it's self care~"
nothing specific, just hitting the vice-marketing scheme from the other end, instead of marketing a product as a vice, it's a vice that's marketed as ~good for you~
I think we do need to acknowledge when something is a vice for us and to not blur the lines there. Marketing really can be sneaky in this blurring.
@sim @harblinger is it a virtue to go out drinking with friends?
or is it a vice?
@sim @harblinger shitposting on fedi is almost certainly a vice
@skells @sim @harblinger friends ive made here have directly led to massive self improvement for me, to prove your point even further
@cell @harblinger @skells @sim no one has ever done anything by themselves thats how the world works baby
@vriska @cell @harblinger @sim this is my point really, it's very difficult at the time to really judge what is virtue and vice once you get outside the library, barring the really egregious shit
@skells @cell @harblinger @sim yeah for sure, I'm with you 100% on that
@sim @harblinger I tried reducing my time down to short spells but then you get into a conversation....
@sim @harblinger I really think the definition of virtue and vices are problematic, however the idea of going against your preferences is solid advice.
Reducing your exposure to pleasure, austerity, and increasing your exposure to pain, courage, are universal virtues when not pushed to extremes (or if you push it to extremes only do it for short spell)
at the end of the day, there's no replacement for self-awareness and good instincts, even if they have to be developed by experience (i.e. trial and error)
I'd also add common sense to that, something often missing now. As if it is offensive to have and use.
