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Hobbies are useless if you can't monetize them (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by cka@lemm.ee to c/depression_now@lemmy.world

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Hobbies are a useless waste of time if you can't monetize them. They won't help depression either cause depression is mostly circumstanial, the only panacea for depression is having a lot of money, not being a wage slave, and having agency to make what you want in life. Oh lots of sex too.

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[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you had $1 billion in the bank, would you still feel that way? That you could only have hobbies if you could monetize them?

To me, I feel like I lose interest in my hobbies when money gets involved. I’m not rich nor high middle class, but I do okay with what I have. Not happy with my house, but glad to have one.

But the few hobbies I do have, I feel like the fun loses value when I start trying to use it to make money. Like making videos for YouTube. If you do it for fun, you don’t give a fuck who hates the videos and who stops watching. You don’t care about appeasing some ad by avoiding certain words and phrases. You say what’s on your mind and fuck the rest.

But as soon as you start trying to make money off of it, you worry about not pissing off certain people, you do worry about losing subscribers, you worry about pissing off Google and losing your monetization…

I’ve been having fun making the videos I do lately and not caring. I’m stressing because I want it to be the way it is in my mind, but it doesn’t stress me in the way it would if it was my livelihood.

[–] cka@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, I'd be much happier with a billion, than I would now. I've had hobbies before, and even though I've enjoyed them it gets boring if there's no extrinsic reward like money or recognition or both. I enjoy making art, but it gets old quick if there's no end goal other than just making a bunch of art that just sits in room and does nothing.