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Hey, that's a nice [THING YOU DO FOR PERSONAL PLEASURE], be a real shame if somebody were to [CONVINCE YOU TO MONETIZE IT, TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP INTO AN OBLIGATION AND ROBBING YOU OF JOY]

This isn't about me/my job btw! Just the ever-present cultural spectre of capitalism that insists that, if you're not making money, you are "wasting" time 🙃

Also, I think we should normalise paying people who create things we enjoy! I just wish there was a way to do this without everything *instantly* becoming a job.

In a business school stats class, we were assigned a project to collect data on a subject of our choice. My team decided to collect data about our happiness at random times of the day. When an exec came and reviewed our report on what made us happy, he said, “great, but how do you monetize it?”