The actual definition of "work" is that you're not doing it because you want to but to fill some kind of need
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
The big argument of the Cold War should not reduced to the strawman (freely used by both sides) of "How do you get people to do stuff instead of just sitting around all day" It's the *coordination* problem, "How do you get people to do the specific things that need doing"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Which ties into the arguments about the exchange vs labor theory of value Okay, everyone at our factory spent years working on these ball bearings, but it turns out they just became obsolete and no one can use them for anything anymore Do we still get paid
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
The harsh inconvenient truth that the rest of the world doesn't care much about what inspires or motivates you, and the *product* of most careers people undertake out of love or passion doesn't actually help other people very much
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Most home cooks who cook for the love of cooking could not survive cooking for big groups of people in a restaurant, much less a communal dining hall To make that work you have to do all this shit to be more efficient that makes cooking no longer fun or creative, but work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Most home gardens planted with love and care don't even make enough food to actually feed the one person who planted it To make it into a working farm takes the fun out of it and adds all these chores and hard choices that make it work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Even in purely creative fields this is the dynamic We all know this by now Millions of people churn out billions of words of free fiction and nonfiction memoir and analysis for no compensation every day And it's all unreadable garbage
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
Like, mathematically it really is "all", Sturgeon's Law was a ratio for professional, published fiction and applied to the Internet it's astoundingly generous, in terms of sheer volume the ratio of bad to good is like a rounding error
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
You personally aren't aware of how high the ratio is because you aren't even aware most of the bad stuff exists It passes through the universe without anyone even being aware it was posted The only pleasure it added to the world was the writer's act of writing it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KatastrophicImp
True, I only read fics I personally get no pleasure out of. Entire tumblrs and forums are devoted to how much they hate it. No one who has written fic has ever been a talented writer who has others edit their work but was kept from a career due to publishing hegemony
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That's my point, you don't read the vast majority of the fic that gets written Nobody does Even if you wanted to, it's literally physically impossible
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