There’s a big difference between alone and lonely, at least for me. And I quite enjoy being alone for extended periods of time. So that’s not a con for me.

That aside, it’s what I’m good at. And it feels good to do something for a living that I’m good at.

Archenemy: There’s a reason to believe

The pruld: We are the souls

Emmit Fenn: painting greys

It doesn’t tell me to go acquire wages so it’s arguably even better!

But don’t you see all the wealth we are creating by doing things this way?!

So, contrary to the claim of the title: yes you can make this up. In fact it’s quite easy to do so.

You’re gonna murder and skin me in front of myself? I’m intrigued and have 40$ to spare

As an IT guy: I love and hate handwriting things. I get the point about intimacy but especially for longer texts expressing many connected thoughts I would never do it by hand. Being able to edit text, switch around blocks of text etc etc is so ingrained in me that doing this by hand frustrates me greatly.

This. I don’t believe it. Why wouldn’t he at least stash the gun and papers somewhere instead of keeping that shit on him?

Well yes and no. The point is to stop using Google. And that entails quite a few things you might expect a phone to do

In this case, your debt is the investment

It’s a great way for the rich to segregate themselves from the poor

Then you gotta scramble

I do think of them. In terms of cooking recipes. Yummy yummy shareholder steak

Didn’t say I do have that faith. Just saying what I think would be necessary for large scale positive change.

I mean, yeah but have you seen…

Gestures broadly

… The state of things? We need to stand up as a people

I’m all for changing the structures that enable scalpers in the first place but that too requires agreement and action of many many people. So if we can’t even do that for something relatively small like tickets to concerts I doubt we’ll be able to change the system in general

You’re hoping that the scalpers don’t get enough return to be able to justify continuing to play their role.

Yes, that’s what “If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers” would achieve. I get that that isn’t going to happen but it is still our collective fault.

If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers the ticket sellers would have a real incentive to do something against the scalpers. Right now they don’t have to care.

I agree that “just don’t buy it” is not that easy for culture in general, it could be applied to hypermonetized events.

I’m not sure I get your second point. How is Ticketmaster enabled by people boycotting events that get scalped?

Are you replying to the correct comment? Because that’s basically what I meant