The way I’ve heard this put is that our potential (skills, will, interest, gumption, etc) has been financialized.
It’s to the point where you’ll just even be day dreaming about some fun idea, and a little subroutine in your head will kick off titled but how do I monetize this?
This is ofc in large part due to the fact that you need to earn a lot of money to survive comfortably, but even that is an artificial condition that we could collectively change if we wanted.
I’m convinced that this process of self and imposed financialization ultimately costs us more joy, wellbeing, peace, and even productivity, than if we simply identified and addressed needs democratically.
a little subroutine in your head will kick off titled but how do I monetize this?
Yep, that is exactly it.
I have finally been winning the battle against that subroutine, and I still stomp that shit into the ground any time it makes a peep.
I’ve given away some cool stuff to some excited people this summer!
A parallel to this issue that still irks the shit out of me is the “huh… smart!” reaction when somebody takes the most greedy path possible. It gets to the point where generosity is a character flaw because it makes you a sucker and not a winner.
I have finally been winning the battle against that subroutine, and I still stomp that shit into the ground any time it makes a peep.
That’s great. I still hear it every now and then, and it never ends up making me feel better. It just starts turning whatever I’m doing into a job.
The only thing that’s worked for me is separating the jobs I do just for money to survive into like their own category. And then thinking of everything else (even if it’s actually very productive in non money ways) as a sort of “play” where anything is allowed, because I make the rules when I’m not on a job.
A parallel to this issue that still irks the shit out of me is the “huh… smart!” reaction when somebody takes the most greedy path possible. It gets to the point where generosity is a character flaw because it makes you a sucker and not a winner.
Omg yes, that’s its own weird societal pathology. It’s like we’ve assimilated the twisted values of the “clever” exec-sociopath type into our cultural script. That’s also part of what I’ve come to understand falls under “financialization.”
The way I’ve heard this put is that our potential (skills, will, interest, gumption, etc) has been financialized.
It’s to the point where you’ll just even be day dreaming about some fun idea, and a little subroutine in your head will kick off titled but how do I monetize this?
This is ofc in large part due to the fact that you need to earn a lot of money to survive comfortably, but even that is an artificial condition that we could collectively change if we wanted.
I’m convinced that this process of self and imposed financialization ultimately costs us more joy, wellbeing, peace, and even productivity, than if we simply identified and addressed needs democratically.
Yep, that is exactly it.
I have finally been winning the battle against that subroutine, and I still stomp that shit into the ground any time it makes a peep.
I’ve given away some cool stuff to some excited people this summer!
A parallel to this issue that still irks the shit out of me is the “huh… smart!” reaction when somebody takes the most greedy path possible. It gets to the point where generosity is a character flaw because it makes you a sucker and not a winner.
That’s great. I still hear it every now and then, and it never ends up making me feel better. It just starts turning whatever I’m doing into a job.
The only thing that’s worked for me is separating the jobs I do just for money to survive into like their own category. And then thinking of everything else (even if it’s actually very productive in non money ways) as a sort of “play” where anything is allowed, because I make the rules when I’m not on a job.
Omg yes, that’s its own weird societal pathology. It’s like we’ve assimilated the twisted values of the “clever” exec-sociopath type into our cultural script. That’s also part of what I’ve come to understand falls under “financialization.”