I've had this thought at times. I work a normal 9-5 in tech support, but ever since I was like 16 or so I thought of music as transceding from a hobby to an actual "I want to do this as a career", and it seems like in the past idk year or two I've really gotten serious to the point I pretty much have no other hobbies, where in the past I'd still play the occasional video game or watch series in my spare time etc.

Now even though I do love it, and don't really feel like it's even a chore to practice or work on writing a song, sometimes I wonder if it's what I'd do if I had true financial freedom. Like who knows if we lived in a socialist utopia where we could work like 15 hours a week etc I would be fine just going to work and then doing whatever, and just doing music purely as a hobby or enjoyment, but the idea of not having a choice, you either gotta work a 9-5 or somehow make your passions become a career makes it feel like maybe I've kind of "tricked" myself into viewing a passion as needing to have a career or money path in it. Anyone else feel similar?

  • Ronalpinhos [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    A socialist utopia wont allow you that much more "free time to do whatever" until the technology advances a fair bit more.

    There is way too much work to be done.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      4 years ago

      There is way too much work to be done.

      We could split a lot of it up amongst people currently working bullshit jobs tho. Like I'll happily work on software to automate things during the week (40hrs/wk is way too much and no one can even actually be productive that long consistently) but it's not like we won't get the whole advertising industry, insurance industry, finance industry, etc added back to the actually useful labor force

      • Ronalpinhos [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        They are not useless.

        Also, unless you wanna go Nazbol there is the fact that an Utopia would be a global project, there is a lot of people in the world and the earth is running out of resources.

        • crime [she/her, any]
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          4 years ago

          How does advertising or insurance or hedge funds actually move society forward? Especially once capitalism is out of the picture

          • Ronalpinhos [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Accounting, statistics, design, PR, management, planning, mathematics Its what this people are skilled at, those are some of the more valuable skills that one can have.

            I can see those industries adapting perfectly to work in a socialist country, perhaps instead of having the goal of cheating out as much resources as possible they could focus on making their projects as attractive, efficient and forward looking as possible, the difference would be the end goal of the whole organization they work for.

            • crime [she/her, any]
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              4 years ago

              Yeah the skillsets aren't useless, but the industries are. Hence they can start doing work that moves society forward (i.e. "useful work") instead of trying to get people to buy things they don't need, or moving numbers in accounts around to create a bigger number that doesn't reflect anything in society.