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RE: What Are You Afraid Of?
I relate to much of that. I don't think our purpose is to be economically productive labor units though. When your product is expressions of human experience (like writing, photography, film, music, etc.) how economically effective you are will follow from how richly you live your life.
I am not afraid to be poor forever. That would be much better than dying atop a mountain of cash, having done cruel things to accumulate it.
I'm not afraid to be poor either, just of not being able to maintain a minimum quality of life to allow me to get by. The phrase "economically productive labor unit" makes me shudder. Sadly I'm a wage slave to a large corporation for the time being, but am actively working to weaken the bars on that particular prison cage, with an eye toward making an escape eventually.