• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    willing to pay for this

    Capitalism. You shouldn’t strive to profit off doing things you enjoy. The profit motive IS the problem.

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      7 days ago

      You shouldn’t strive to profit off doing things you enjoy

      Sounds like a win-win to me

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        7 days ago

        Only if you’re lucky. I loved programming. Used to do it all the time. Got a job doing it, and it’s just exhausting now. So much gets caught up in the process: money to survive, meeting other people’s deadlines and goals, etc. It kills the enjoyment.

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          Would you rather have a hobby, or food and shelter? Having a love of programming made you good at programming. But programming is a means to an end. It’s enjoyable, but if you don’t produce anything, you’re just masturbating. Once you are good at it, you don’t have to enjoy anymore.

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            7 days ago

            Of course, you’d rather have food or shelter. And why would you not have food and shelter? Oh, because society deems that if you don’t work, you don’t live.

            And don’t knock masturbating. It’s a lot of fun. So is programming with no real goal. Sometimes you enjoy the journey, not the destination.

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      7 days ago

      Or maybe you shouldnt be telling people how to live their lives? Even fans of communism have dictatorial tendencies.

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        Advice isn’t the force of law. Don’t be silly. There’s plenty of reasons to hate communism that don’t require you to be silly.

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        7 days ago

        Even fans of communism have dictatorial tendencies.

        These phonies just think if they cosplay commie they can become the dear daddy of these stupid peasants and lead into a revolution…

        A certain type of person