[anewhnaccount3]

Shades of Graeber in this essay:

>There was a time when academia was society’s refuge for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical. No longer. It is now the domain of professional self-marketers. As for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical: it would seem society now has no place for them at all.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7004628-there-was-a-time-wh...

[tatrajim]

Thanks be for online investing. It's been my place of economic refuge to fund my lifelong impracticality.

[Aerbil313]

I don't know. Does internet communities count?

[incompatible]

They don't generally supply food, housing.