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In an overly consumerist late-stage capitalistic society, my socially unacceptable guilty indulgence is minimalism.
That's "my only weakness is I work too hard" kind of stuff.
Along similar lines, I think one of mine has become resisting our cultural expectation of constant growth in all areas possible.
Carter is an obvious one. I like my job and it makes my day more pleasant than past jobs have. The pay is good. I don’t need to painstakingly plan a path to be the manger then the director then the VP, just to spend more of my life working.
I have big plans for the future of the koi pond in my back yard though. The more of my life I spend working on that thing, the better my life seems to get.
(The things that matter or don’t matter are inherently personal - I’m not trying to insult anybody who gets genuine thrill and fulfillment from kicking ass at work constantly. )
oh god, the reactions I get when I'd rather repair a thing for the same cost as buying the same thing. It even happens when fixing the thing is cheaper.
I get this. I'm the director of a small tech company, market forces demand that I just do more work instead, but sometimes some trivial 2$ device breaks and it personally offends me.
So I re-engineer it so it's rated for 100+ years or whatever. I get the boards made in the factory, assemble with hot-air rework, and write the firmware myself. Sometimes it costs me a week, but it produces the things I'm most happy with.
Clients just want cheap stuff done poorly by tomorrow. If you want art, you've got to be your own customer :(