This presumes either a fungibility of passion, an arbitrariness of creative capacity, or both. It's easier to criticize people for being passionate about the "wrong" work than it is to energize them toward the "right" work, but they do not lead to the same outcomeshttps://twitter.com/irinimalliaraki/status/1166974150633762816 …
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Why not just be happy that people are following their passions? The mentality that we must do a certain type of work because that's what's good for X is so dehumanizing. It turns people into instruments. I don't get it.
Yeah, I think it (may be) dehumanizing in at least two ways: it assumes that competent people are a communal resource that don't fully belong to themselves & it implies, in targeting the few already working on passion projects, that competency is static + unequally distributed
