• Azzu@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Who says I don’t? Just nothing I do can be turned into a job that pays enough money to live. I don’t want to be doing one thing for more than 5-10 hours a week, and I want to do many different things, not stick with one for very long.

    I’ve created open source software. I’ve written guides for games. I’ve helped countless people with their problems, online and offline. All my friends would say I’m valuable to them, those are part of “society”. I’m constantly making myself better, more knowledgeable, I am part of society, by improving myself I improve society.

    None of this is any job that pays any money.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, can you help me get started and tell me how would I make money with what you’ve read so far from me? Doing things I want to do.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      Your problem is twofold: One, that you’ve bought into the idea that only paid work is meaningful, a destructive paradigm rooted in misogyny; and B, it’s not that you don’t like work, you just don’t like responsibility. Which, okay, but avoiding it is still pretty immature. And maybe you’re young, and being a dilletante is fine for now, but for your own sake you shouldn’t aspire to make it a lifelong pattern.