But "wellness" is not health. In many cases, the two are in direct conflict. "Wellness" is best understood as an elite alternative to the proletarian "health." To use airplane tickets as a metaphor, "wellness" is first class, and "health" is economy. Especially as developed countries expand health care access, the baseline concepts of health — eating right, exercise, vaccination, regular doctor visits, blood pressure and cancer screenings — become associated with working-class people. It's not a coincidence that "wellness" took off after the Affordable Care Act was passed. When poorer people can go to the doctor regularly, the elite want something different to set themselves apart. Let the hoi polloi have vaccines. The wealthy will eat expensive organic foods and tell themselves it's a superior form of defense against disease.
What little bit I know about rich people, which is almost but not quite zero, is that they like exactly 2 things: being around other people who are rich, and not being around other people who are not rich. And of course since as a nation we pride ourselves on nothing more than fetishizing rich people, instead of the 99% telling the 1% to go fuck themselves and demand our own needs be catered to we're gonna pop our hamstrings to make sure we give more & more $$$$ to the uber-wealthy so they can lecture us from their 3rd ski cabin in Switzerland. Awesome.
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