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1. 🐚 ms_xenophora 🐚 (amylsacks@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Apr-2018 18:34:48 EDT 🐚 ms_xenophora 🐚

   Everyone is dunking on the Goldman Sachs curing-you-cuts-into-my-profits take, which is good.

   Worth remembering, though: nearly all of us have been reared to believe some version of the same thing. Every day we make some move, judgment, or decision which says, "If this person or thing makes no money, it's has no inherent worth, in any way."

   It takes conscious reminders, maybe even a damn mantra, to counteract this message which is all around us like air and sky.

   1. maiki (maiki@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 15-Apr-2018 13:43:37 EDT maiki

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      @amylsacks Depression gave me lots of time to think about this, and then I concluded, "Oh, captialism, this isn't gonna work". Now that I am less depressed, it still holds for me. I don't think this game is substainable, and it isn't fun, so let's pick a new one.