The Cosmic Co-Op

The Cosmic Co-Op

Can you actually “heal” from capitalism?

Short answer: no.

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Samantha Young
Jan 09, 2025
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Short answer: no.

I realized yesterday that my mission to help fellow queerdos and neurodivergent witches who are “healing from capitalism,” a mission I established in 2022 when I began The Financial Witch, is a pipe dream.

It’s not that capitalism will last forever—it certainly will not—but we cannot heal from active, ongoing harm. In order for healing to happen, the harm first needs to stop. And we haven’t stopped capitalism yet, so there is no “healing from capitalism,” but there is coping. There is mitigating harm. There is imagining a world without capitalism. There is the act of subversion. We still have all these tools at our disposal, if we choose to use them.

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