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The alternative was artisanal soap biiiiiitch.
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I code now but I would love to make a living blacksmithing or knitting or woodworking.
Do you already know how to do those other things? If not, you can start learning now, and when you get better with the skill, start selling stuff from it. Make it more of a transition than an abrupt change.
If you pick up knitting, just don’t go into it thinking there’s any money in big projects, because there absolutely isn’t. Blankets and sweaters and such rarely sell for the amount that pays for the time and material investment because mass produced items are dirt cheap. Hats, scarves, and stuffed toys are where the money is at for yarn-based goods, especially if you can recreate some of the more complicated hats like the bearded Viking hat, Roman gladiator hat with face guard, or octopus hat. You can sell those for a pretty penny at events, tho most sales will be the smaller cheaper items you can just crank out dozens a day.
But if you pick up all three of those hobbies over time and make stuff, you could have a very interesting booth at the farmers market or craft shows or whatever other events you might want to attend to sell your wares, and the variety on offer would be a big draw. Plus online ofc.
I have some friends who live the craft-selling life, one with only yarn goods. It’s doable, but involves a lot of events, which means setting up and taking down a whole display every sales day.
If you struggle with space or tools for the woodworking one, look up building furniture with cardboard. It’s a lot more durable than it sounds, can be done with wheat paste, which is basically free, and you can usually source cardboard from retailers for free, so pure profit. Just have to get good at doing it.
Edit: here’s a video I like introducing some techniques for cardboard building, including making it waterproof for outdoor use.
My only current skill is blacksmithing. I can make stuff that folk might want to buy like custom railings and candle holders. I have made knives and swords but I feel like everyone does that already. I think it’s just tough to make it a career as I have to keep health insurance for the kids and other kinds of expenses like that. I do make some money playing live music but that also ain’t paying the bills anytime soon. Pretty sure if I ever see a retirement I’m just going to focus on those things.
Blacksmithing could be a nice supplemental income at least. Make artsy objects, think about how much you could charge for it, multiply that number by ten, and sell them at craft fairs. You’ll only sell a couple now and then, but you might make a break even amount of money on your hobby, and you’ll spend the day having people enjoy looking at the things you created
This is why UBI is such a great idea. Many people would love to do things that simply aren’t worth doing under capitalism. If one can’t make a living on it, it becomes a hobby and for a lot of people that comes with real limitations.
Once basic needs are met, lots of people would like to cut down on work and do something good for the community. Do some volunteering or contribute in other ways. People could have their hobbies and sell stuff from that, like blacksmithing, knitting or woodworking. But because it doesn’t need to cover their existence, prices could be reasonable. Etsy wouldn’t need to compete with China, so it wouldn’t be the cesspool it is today. It wouldn’t even need to be profitable, making the hobby cheaper would be a win in itself.
Having every hour be spent “earning” the right to exist, to keep on living is bad for people and humanity on so many levels.
And sure there will be workaholics that work themselves to death for the sake of it, the rich folk who don’t need UBI but get it anyways and the stoners that smoke weed all day and play video games contributing little to nothing. But on the whole it’s totally worth the cost. There is no perfect system, every system will have downsides. But that shouldn’t prevent us from improving the life of most people.
You wish!!
(And so do I)
I mean we’re not there yet, and things are gonna get worse before they get better, but we’re also closer than you might think. I’d say within around 50 years society will be significantly reshaped away from requiring people to devote their lives to a job they don’t want to do
Yeah, as usual the “old generation” just has to die out first 😓
As someone who hopes to be old someday, this will definitely mean I get talked about as “the old generation,” and even if I try to be the most virtuous elder, I fear for common sentiment being
as usual the “old generation” just has to die out first
with people wanting me to die out first because my quiet, inoffensive elderly existence reminds folks of elderly generational cohorts in power, or elderly people fighting to make things worse. It hurts to see the generalization, especially when you know elderly folk out there protesting and trying to make things right. Elderly folk being hurt by the system, who did not vote for it, but because some of their generational cohorts did they are tarred with the same brush of the ones who did vote it in.
Autistic person who thought we aren’t supposed to generalize based on demographics, but keeps seeing people online do it anyways on the grounds that the demographic they are generalizing is being screwed less than other people, or some people in the demographic actively working to hurt others. I actively end up avoiding a lot of spaces meant for my multiple non-majority non-in-power demographics because of all the “punching up” and feeling really uncomfortable with it, but also not wanting to tell people to stop venting in areas meant for that. But now it happens basically everywhere and it always feels wildly uncomfortable to see.
Sorry to brush you the wrong way but you’re not the main character in this story.
Or are you one of the old people thinking that it should stay like it is because it was betterr before? That the importance of someones life is having a “decent job” and not doing what they want? That change is bad because you have to adapt to what other people might like? Because changing the world to a better place needs even some effort from everyone?
If so then yes you’re a burden to positive change.
If not, well then I’ll take your post as a rant because life isnt fair, which I understand completely, because it isn’t. Maybe you can come to terms with that one day. I hope you can because it’s worth it, good luck!
You’re taking OP’s comment in the wrong way entirely, and being rude too. OP is right, this isn’t about old people as group, and you’re wrong to be blaming them for it as a group. This is the way society has been for millennia at least, so it’s not just about the generation or two that preceded you. OP is right, your generalizations are no better than the generalizations of racism or sexism.
Be the change you want to see.
Dude, this is how it works in science, “change comes when the old generation dies” is a saying old as universities. Everything isn’t about you.
AI Generated Socks
Slocks.
South Park said it best: “AI is taking over all the jobs you don’t need hands for…”
That’s an extremely short term difference
