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ICYMI: Is complaining about clutter the ultimate First World Problem?

In case you missed it, the new fad of decluttering has been accused of being elitist.

Marie Kondo’s best-seller “The Life Changing Magic of Cleaning up”, and guide to tidying, sparked a minimalist revolution. But Arielle Bernstein wrote for ‘The Atlantic‘ that the minimalist life is a luxury, and it’s easy to see items as oppressive when we can so easily buy new ones.

Monique Bowley, Kate de Brito and Mia Freedman discuss whether this cultural trend is really just a way of us complaining about our privilege.