… so long as it does not materially impact your ability to provide basic necessities for your own wellbeing, food, water, shelter, some level of climate control, etc.
… and you are not directly, indirectly, or functionally spending other people’s money on your hobbies.
I’d say spending SOME money and time on your most fulfilling hobbies is damn near a necessity for a healthy existence.
And yeah sure, plenty of people don’t do that, and plenty of people literally cannot afford to do that here in my dear old US of A.
But you know what else I see a lot of people doing in the US? Fighting mental illness and talking ever more openly about the need for revolution and violence.
Spending money on hobbies is fine, change my mind.
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The only people deserving fun are the billionaires.
Peasants, all of them! You have to be a 5T corporation to afford any fun.
And the only thing they enjoy is our suffering.
Tastes like spaghetti, I hear.
Yes but they get such a great deal!
They (and I just did the math) could higher all of humanity at minimum wage for 4 years without having to make a drop of income!
and since it is all software they don’t even have any material cost.
At those prices why not buy humanity?
Get into videogames, then you can do both
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… so long as it does not materially impact your ability to provide basic necessities for your own wellbeing, food, water, shelter, some level of climate control, etc.
… and you are not directly, indirectly, or functionally spending other people’s money on your hobbies.
No. I agree with you
Spending disposable money on hobbies is fine
I’d say spending SOME money and time on your most fulfilling hobbies is damn near a necessity for a healthy existence.
And yeah sure, plenty of people don’t do that, and plenty of people literally cannot afford to do that here in my dear old US of A.
But you know what else I see a lot of people doing in the US? Fighting mental illness and talking ever more openly about the need for revolution and violence.
As long as “spending money” isn’t the hobby and you actually use it otherwise it’s a waste of resources.