Bestselling self-help books promote the law of attraction, a mystical belief that simply thinking positive thoughts will magically manipulate the universe into sending you massive amounts of wealth and success.

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Bestselling self-help books promote the law of attraction, a mystical belief that simply thinking positive thoughts will magically manipulate the universe into sending you massive amounts of wealth and success. This toxic spiritual framework completely ignores systemic poverty and bad luck, actively suggesting that sick or destitute people somehow manifested their own suffering by simply not vibing at a high enough frequency. The only people actually getting rich off this universal energy field are the authors selling millions of books to desperate individuals who think a vision board will magically pay off their massive student loans. It is peak capitalist mysticism to convince the working class that they do not need structural economic reform, they just need to close their eyes and wish really hard for a sports car