• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is so incredibly well put, especially your first paragraph and the concise term

    commoditization of the self

    That is exactly what it is. Anymore you can’t even have a hobby without someone chiming in and suggesting you should make coin off it by hawking it on Facebook or TikTok, without ever realizing that the point of a hobby is the joy of it. The monetization of creative impulse tends to destroy that joy and enslave the creativity to its end result and/or the perceived monetary value it may eventually have.

    Really well said. Thank you for taking the time to write it.