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Please Let Me Monetize My Hobbies
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#32There's nothing whatsoever wrong with monetizing hobbies. What's wrong is when you change how you approach your hobbies to appeal to the people paying you money. Following a content upload schedule and unironically begging your audience to like, comment and subscribe to your content are prime examples of ways to come off as a phony.
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#33It being a business, even if it makes $2/mo, can be part of the hobby. Reading about taxes and small businesses is fun for me.
It being commercially successful is not a concern for me. That would be the difference between a hobby and a job for me
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#35What on earth? You're still free to enjoy your hobbies as you see fit. Just because someone out there makes a hustle out of it doesn't mean you have to.
I believe they were just expressing their general frustrations with the hustle culture and how it’s geared towards everything in life.
For a supposedly intellectual and thoughtful community, there sure are a lot of commenters here missing the point and instead jumping to defend the idea of making money from hobbies.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gen Z seems more anti-work than most generations, and I really hope that pushes them to be less apathetic than Gen X/Millenials with regards to worker's rights, reduced work weeks, universal healthcare, and possibly even UBI.
As a Gen Z I can vouch for this statement. There are so many times where I just look at what alot of my peers spend their time doing and I think I'm so out of place...Where is the work ethic?? the desire to improve. However I can also say that there are always some good apples in the midst of the bad ones and that we aren't all that bad!
People want to do meaningful work and improve their skills and lives.
However, incentives are not lined up to promote and reward this for quite a lot of people. Workers look around and see that working harder just means you get more work and maybe a pizza party. Raises don't beat inflation or are non-existent. They might be scheduled or classified in a way that makes them ineligible for health insurance. Pensions don't exist and "the market" ruined plenty of people's paths to retirement. Their free time is disrespected with inconsistent and last minute scheduling or with on-call duty. Their leaders can decide that inflation is caused by high salaries with layoffs as the solution and their employer obliges. They can work full time and still be in precarious positions when it comes to basic necessities like housing and healthcare.
I stopped at a McDonald's to use their WiFi and a group of high school kids were there, and I overheard a girl get very upset because her mom was laid off from the job she worked at since the girl was born, and can't retire, keep her health insurance or home. She was crying for her mom and herself. She yelled about how her mom worked crazy hours and put up with abuse. Then she said something to the tune of, "what's the point of giving yourself to your job if you will just be thrown out like that?" This was in a middle/upper middle class neighborhood.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gen Z seems more anti-work than most generations, and I really hope that pushes them to be less apathetic than Gen X/Millenials with regards to worker's rights, reduced work weeks, universal healthcare, and possibly even UBI.
As a Gen Z I can vouch for this statement. There are so many times where I just look at what alot of my peers spend their time doing and I think I'm so out of place...Where is the work ethic?? the desire to improve. However I can also say that there are always some good apples in the midst of the bad ones and that we aren't all that bad!
Screw work ethic. We could all reap the benefits of AI by working a day less but instead it’s gonna get given to the machine owners who just lay everyone off and have them fight down to the bottom
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gen Z seems more anti-work than most generations, and I really hope that pushes them to be less apathetic than Gen X/Millenials with regards to worker's rights, reduced work weeks, universal healthcare, and possibly even UBI.
As a Gen Z I can vouch for this statement. There are so many times where I just look at what alot of my peers spend their time doing and I think I'm so out of place...Where is the work ethic?? the desire to improve. However I can also say that there are always some good apples in the midst of the bad ones and that we aren't all that bad!
Something that I have thought is that gen z may be just like every generation except we know way too much. The same trend of a few winners that worked hard, a few lucky, and then a sea of misery.
I've found a few crazy hard working gen z, and im happy to be mentoring g one.
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#39I've found the opposite of this sentiment to be true, at least in my case as youtube engineer / maker. If you can find a way to monetize your hobby it is: 1. A great motivator to actually finish projects 2. A good way to justify / fund more costly projects 3. A great source of joy if people enjoy what you make I've been careful to not undermine my key sources of joy in making things (learning, doing hard things, maki…
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Re: Please Let Me Monetize My Hobbies
#40There's nothing whatsoever wrong with monetizing hobbies. What's wrong is when you change how you approach your hobbies to appeal to the people paying you money. Following a content upload schedule and unironically begging your audience to like, comment and subscribe to your content are prime examples of ways to come off as a phony.
Did you read the post?