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leftist obsession with living your politics could be pretty tiresome and self-defeating back in the day, but there was at least a recognition that yeah, you could choose a life outside the straight world of employment, but a natural consequence of that would be that you would be poor

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They have confused "your material need for food, shelter, and calories makes these things a basic human right" with Automated Luxury Space Communism to their detriment. It's the same reason people on here don't seem to understand that malnutrition & food security are literally not starving to death.

I did this for years, it was fine. Then I needed a little more money so as not to forcibly impose my slacker lifestyle on my SO at the time so I got a "real" job. That was fine too. Side effect of this process is that I'm eternally inoculated against rich kids crying poverty because burrito taxi.