@Moon who does lmao
i mean sure people are inherently curious and will do things that some consider work as hobbies, but i don't think there would be that many people that went to their 9-5 or 6-12 if they didn't have to worry about getting food and cash to pay the various rackets.
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Even though work and hobbies are often similar in practice, they're completely different psychologically, for sure. It's a rare breed of successful person who is able to live off doing something that they'd be doing in their free time anyway.
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@boob @Moon i'm not sure if i believe that the successful people find their hobbies turned into jobs that fun. no matter if you're the top dog or you're getting paid by someone else to solve their problems, the unfun parts are going to become a big part of your job anyway.
except in cases like crowd- or donation funded projects or something, just take the cash and do like always :^)
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@okl @boob @Moon I guess this was originally about unfair treatment of workers, but I like this philosophical thread. In my experience the only difference between a job and a hobby is that when the hobby gets frustrating you can just drop it. With the job you have to power through and that's a useful skill to have in general. It sometimes means half-assing, but that's also a useful skill (or mental ability or something), cause sometimes the proper way is so difficult you'll just never do it (or it might even turn out not to be proper after all).

tldr: 100% of people don't want to work, but 80% do it to be worth something (numbers derived from OP)

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