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Re:Turning My Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It by cvoss on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:01PM (#36590342)
> Most of the time people are just fighting over scraps and the best they can hope for is some steady source of income that pays their rent and affords them some basic luxuries like visiting Las Vegas and watching a few acrobatic shows.

I'm sorry to react so strongly, but I think it's demeaning to suggest that the life condition you described is one of "fighting over scraps". It's also... (I'm struggling to find the right words) really entitled in a materialistic way to suggest (correct me if this is not what you suggest) that it's unfair that almost nobody can move from the average station to the station of uber-wealthy. Who is owed the life of opulence? And who owes it to them? And how many people actually aspire to this extreme wealth, vs. recognize that there is a heck of a lot more meaningful things to do with life than make money?

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Re:Turning My Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It by climatologist on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:14PM (#36590539)
Which part do you disagree with? Money is a way to control the masses and it has always been used that way. The technology currently exists to do away with all wealth disparities and achieve a true meritocracy wherein individual talents are developed to benefit everyone collectively but most people can not conceive of what such a world would look like so they chase money and end up miserable. In the grand scheme of things money is entirely meaningless, it's a bunch of numbers in databases.
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Re:Turning My Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It by badpun on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:43PM (#36590969)
> The technology currently exists to do away with all wealth disparities and achieve a true meritocracy

Can you name that technology?

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Re:Turning My Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It by climatologist on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:51PM (#36591066)
Give every child a library and see what happens. It could be electronic or otherwise.
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Re:Turning My Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It by badpun on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:42PM (#36591649)
Aren't there libraries everywhere already (in developed world at least)?
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Re:Turning My Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It by climatologist on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:54PM (#36591789)
Not really.
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Re:Turning My Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It by hker999 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:38PM (#36591606)
They play games and watch mindless YouTube videos. This isn't a very good argument.
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Re:Turning My Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It by climatologist on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:53PM (#36591784)
I didn't say give them internet access. The internet is already too far gone down the drain to be salvaged.
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Re:Turning My Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It by anigbrowl on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @08:31PM (#36594232)
demeaning to suggest that the life condition you described is one of "fighting over scraps"

Nobody likes leaving the cave.

GP is not suggesting people deserve to become super-wealthy, but is pointing out that it is very hard to get out of financial survival into thriving without considerable luck or an unusual degree of innovative ability and ready access to capital.

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