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“Pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing, and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors, so now it’s like ‘the point of doing them is to get good at them’ and not ‘this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives.’”

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    18 hours ago

    And if you show any ability above terrible, everyone starts telling you about how much money you can make.

    Fuck off. I do this for me.

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      16 hours ago

      I’ve mostly heard that from boomers. I thought it was some weird post war mentality and upbringing that you need to be doing profitable work all day and sleep all night and breed and that’s all that matters.