Hm, maybe that is your own insecurity with the subject speaking? Because the affirmations clearly state that "you don't need to" and not that you shouldn't. Obviously it is fine to capitalize on your passion. But often when you are really interested in any topic or good at something, you get told by all sorts of people that you should make money out of it. So there is a certain societal pressure based on capitalism to do so. And these affirmations just state that you don't need to. But it is with stay at home moms maybe. You sure can stay at home and do the household and care for the kids etc. But you definitely don't need to and it is important to get the message out that these expectations are highly problematic. Same goes for the expectation to capitalize on your interests.

Feel that. Girlfriend made candles as a hobby. I took them to work. Coworkers tried to buy them. Skip ahead a year later and she's got an inventory of nearly 200 candles and a bunch of scents and doing shows and making money. Still in the red overall, but seeing people's eyes light up when they smell them is better than any profit.

Being a landlord isn't work, that's being a parasite.

Leadership is valid when you're elevated there by the consensus of your peers. That person might have the title of CEO or President. In a lefty organization that's still in a society with currency, they wouldn't have 10,000x the pay of the median worker. They might not even have 10x the pay.

I got caught up on that one too. I think it could be argued that CEO is a job, and landlord is a title. Neither of those necessarily implies work.

But there might be some things that these people do which could be considered work.

So like if you were to hypothetically divorce these from money, you could say that, I dunno: reading tech articles and going to conferences and talking about how your co-workers are implementing the tech, is work; or fixing up a house, or keeping tabs on a block of houses and making sure they're actually maintained, is work.

Maybe it is a stretch.. I do think there are "bullshit jobs" which would not exist (certainly not in the current form) without capitalism. Like there would be no demand for them outside of accruing capital for people who don't need it

just looks like image upscaling to me, presumably the original text was like 5 pixels per letter.

note how most corners are smoothened out into curves, that's typical of algorithms that try to be smart about upscaling.

nobody should expect that entitles them to luxury and extravagances by extension.

They're not? I don't know where you got that from. It has nothing to do with the point you claim to be addressing.

Both extremes are damaging: doing too much or doing too little. From my point of view looking to achieve a flow state in daily life activities is the best way to go.

A lot of people feel guilty for being lazy instead of productive. The post is making the (in my opinion, fair) claim that in a society where we weren't forced to work ourselves to the bone that we wouldn't have these internalized guilts about pursuing things purely for enjoyment without monetary gain. That we might not feel the urge to work even when we could be enjoying a day off. That these things are the result of capitalist propaganda.

It is definitely healthy to be able to take time and actually do nothing though. Like having a cup of tea in the morning, and just sitting and waking up slowly. That's good for the soul

The point is it's not a requirement to be worth smth