Every moment in a capitalist economy is designed to encourage profit growth for billionaires/corps. We work, we produce profit. When we're done work and "relax," we produce ad revenue via our phones/TVs. Creating mass amounts of art does not fit that ecosystem, so it's intentionally squeezed out.

I was put on involuntary paid leave as a precursor to being laid off about a week ago, and I've been trying to get back into d&d homebrew and rp now that I'm not in the office. Yet, of course, I have parents asking me if I'll do "something productive" today, meaning towards my next job. Ugh.

This is one of the most depressing and accurate things I've ever seen.

The Gini coefficient for authors is really bad.

"Whats your side hustle" "If your not Learning your Not Earning" My friend, I just want to collapse when I'm not at work

Also, thanks to publishers getting bought and merged, it's harder to get traditionally published, which means your options are slogging through the slush pile in hopes that editors whose assistants got laid off will take time to read you, or self-publishing and competing with AI slurry.