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        "plaintext": "Recently, I shared with someone that I wanted to explore something creative. Their response was basically, \"why would you waste your time doing that, it's not going to make you any money\""
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        "plaintext": "I think we've completely lost the the idea of having a hobby in our society. And I think it's because so many of us consume content of people turning their hobbies into something they sell ads around. So anytime someone decides to pursue a hobby, we assume it's because they want to eventually monetize it to be rich. And we've stopped just enjoying hobbies for the sake of enjoyment. Also people just don't have enough to exist, so it feels like at every waking moment, we have to be trying to earn money because otherwise we might go hungry."
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        "plaintext": "It's exhausting. I'm exiting this idea. I'm fortunate enough that I have some free time in life, and I've just decided to spend more of it doing things that simply bring me joy. I'm going waste as much time in life as I can. I will waste time with friends and family. I'll waste time exploring ideas that will never go anywhere, and never be marketable. I'm going just go down rabbit holes. I'll rarely tell anyone about it, and I won't even document it. I'll simply just do it, and go to bed. This is part of my protest now. "
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  "textContent": "Recently, I shared with someone that I wanted to explore something creative. Their response was basically, \"why would you waste your time doing that, it's not going to make you any money\"\nI think we've completely lost the the idea of having a hobby in our society. And I think it's because so many of us consume content of people turning their hobbies into something they sell ads around. So anytime someone decides to pursue a hobby, we assume it's because they want to eventually monetize it to be rich. And we've stopped just enjoying hobbies for the sake of enjoyment. Also people just don't have enough to exist, so it feels like at every waking moment, we have to be trying to earn money because otherwise we might go hungry.\nIt's exhausting. I'm exiting this idea. I'm fortunate enough that I have some free time in life, and I've just decided to spend more of it doing things that simply bring me joy. I'm going waste as much time in life as I can. I will waste time with friends and family. I'll waste time exploring ideas that will never go anywhere, and never be marketable. I'm going just go down rabbit holes. I'll rarely tell anyone about it, and I won't even document it. I'll simply just do it, and go to bed. This is part of my protest now. \nJoin me!",
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