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i'm suspicious of people who seek patronage for work that undermines the basis on which the funds they're willing to accept were earned...and i'm also suspicious of this suspicion because it feels mostly like ressentiment, but also feel like there's wisdom at the heart of it
the version of this that triggers me involves snide undermining of the orientation to conventional careers and optionality-seekingsomehow feeling like you deserve independence, no accountability, and leeway to unempathetically deride the mechanisms that are directly funding you
Relates to this other feeling https://t.co/hj1Io9wYF1
and this from the same thread https://t.co/eASeC6tPnq
Any lifestyle that affords a pre-industrial scale of doing nothing while transparently enjoying the tremendous privilege of that scale is in a comfortable spot on a pyramid, or at least heavily subsidized by those accepting of work as duty (possibly your past self paid this out).