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What irks me the most about that kind of attitude is the idea that stuff has to make money to be worthwhile. It's perverse. Nobody is allowed personal growth or passions any more, absolutely everything needs to be grinded out as a side hustle.
Tell someone what you do or create in your free time and half the time they'll start asking what your channels for monetisation on that are. Do you sell it on etsy? You making videos on that? Why not try contacting local business and selling that skill? Did you know you could sign up for this signal-boosting ad-share service to maximise engagement so you can easily compare your ROI?
And inside you're dying because "dude, no, i just wanted to try my hand at making a spice rack"
I have not once had a friend ask me these sorts of questions. You need to make different friends.
My mother went all in on this philosophy, to the point that growing up I wasn't allowed to have hobbies or be in extracurriculars unless I was planning to monetize them. The only thing it did was kill my self-worth and make me feel like all hobbies are inherently pointless, because the vast majority of people will never be able to make money on them. It's such an insane, toxic ideology.
You can thank our society by entirely focusing on economy ignoring human rights the moment this shift started(climate change). If only my sociology professor could hear this.