Your Therapist Needs Therapy 117 - No Ethical Billionaires (Taylor’s Version)

In this solo episode of Your Therapist Needs Therapy, Jeremy Schumacher critiques the ethics of wealth and fandom through the lens of Taylor Swift’s celebrity empire, arguing that she—like Jeff Bezos and other billionaires—profits from systemic exploitation and capitalist excess. He unpacks the contradictions of therapists and progressive individuals celebrating Swift while simultaneously claiming to decolonize mental health or oppose capitalism, framing it as a moral and class hypocrisy. Drawing parallels to Metalocalypse’s satirical band Dethklok, Jeremy illustrates how fandom and consumption blur with complicity, urging listeners to stay critically aware of how capitalism commodifies joy, identity, and activism.

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