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Originally Posted by Frownland
It's probably more because self help is a better vessel for right wing ideas since it focuses on the individual and encourages people to ignore structural factors influencing their lives rather than the left "avoiding" grifting people. The existence of the market doesn't necessitate pursuing it either, since to be similarly effective you're basically asking the left to operate like the right.
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to me it's not just the existence of a market, that market exists as a reflection of real needs and problems that otherwise go unaddressed. I'm not saying the left necessarily needs to try to corner the market if they are just inherently uninterested in doing so but then the lamentations of how young men gravitate to self help types on the other side seems all the more impotent.