Even with total wealth redistribution and a basic income stipend, I’d still work 80-100 hours a week because I can’t help myself.
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I’ve been trying since I was a wee lad to monetize/professionalize all my hobbies and I doubt those habits would die in one generation
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I thought that would lead to a career as a wrestler or “muscleman” (didn’t really think that one through) but I’ve somehow lucked into making more money from these things than if I were just some mediocre or average athlete. It’s truly fascinating
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I’m not even really known in these fields except to the athletes/sources I have and the editors who employ me, and yet here I am: inexplicably
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I think actually merging the real physical stuff I did for decades (and the research I did in grad school) into the coverage I produce now created some added value in a lane that is still mostly empty of other people who can generate that content
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Other people do the wrestling stuff and it's good, but it's the stuff on strength and embodiment and so on I've done that is still somewhat novel given how Sam Fussell wrote one book and then called it and there's just not much else
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And I was better at pumping iron and wrestling than, say, Loic Wacquant was at boxing because I had a hell of head start. So that's a unique sort of value add, and gives my work an interesting retrospective feel
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