Consider: discontent with self-image feeds huge profits to the billion dollar beauty-industrial-complex, and significant misery to millions. We in the business world talk at great lengths about value-add. The only way I see “value-add” by this sector requires a very short-term focus.
I wonder if there’s a place for the beauty businesses in a world of high-functioning people with great self-esteem. So I think of many women who use these products without demonstrating any lack of self-confidence. Are they simply hiding a deeper misery, or might there be something deeper that I simply cannot see. Probably the later. Probably.
We should consider who we can extract the more egregious agony from this sector while keeping the (presumed?) benefits. So much to meditate upon.
