Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by derektank 149 days ago
>The problem is really that we live in a system that demands we find commercially exploitable value in almost everything we do.

Demands? Almost everything we do? I only spend 40-50 hours a week max doing labor that anybody would reasonably describe as being commercially exploited. No one’s broken down my door demanding I start making money on the visual novel I’m drafting in Ren’Py on the weekends, nor have I been castigated by my peers for throwing a party without charging an entrance fee.

1 comments

Good for you, genuinely!

Far from a universal experience though. People who rely on art to survive right now. People who don't have the energy to do more "productive" work on weekends. And those that work weekends to survive because they don't make a living wage.