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Yeah. The "day job" has always been nothing more than a means to better ends. Everything worthwhile, exciting, and satisfying I've achieved in life was in the gaps between doing something I could use my time better for. Like Twain said - "don't let schooling get in the way of your education", similarly I think ones "work" happens despite employment, rarely through it. In this way "capitalism" is a horrible waste of human capital. Imagine what Ludgate might have achieved if not counting penny corns. I hope for a world for children who'll get a UBI, and space in life to develop their true selves.



Maybe the habits of discipline that come from formal schooling and work are necessary for a man like Ludgate, or maybe not. We are products of our constraints to some extent




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