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By that metric do authors or poets or actors create a physical product? Do computer programers? Since the death of physical media, books and art are now far more frequently digital than paper or canvas. Applications and software is 100% digital. Newspapers are dead, so journalists don’t create a physical product. Is your argument that only physical labor producing physical things is “real” work?

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Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
No, there is value in artistic expression and other intangibles. Our ideas are what give the tangibles scope.

What I AM saying is that people seem to think that social media influencers are more important than farmers or gas station attendants or grocers. No they are not. Most aren’t creating anything more than a hobby level. That’s okay if that’s what you want to do with your time, just don’t expect sympathy from those who feed you, keep your lights on, and ensure the comfort of all.

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- Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Why won’t you feel sympathy for someone who’s hurting? Why do you feel that someone needs to fall into a very narrow category to be “worth your time”?
  
  Just because someone doesn’t fall into your narrow view of what’s worthwhile doesn’t mean they’re not worth basic human compassion.
  
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  - Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Of course they are worth compassion. I just don’t understand their desire to be the center of attention, when all the acclaim of the crowd doesn’t truly bring individual satisfaction.
    
    Fame is fickle and not worth chasing. Achilles found that out the hard way.
    
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    Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    I just don’t understand their desire to be the center of attention
    
    There is that aspect of it, but there’s also the aspect of writing your own destiny, about creating something you care about instead of just being a nameless cog in an industrial machine putting out consumerist crap day in and day out. Why is the latter more admirable to you than the former?
    
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- Narauko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It doesn’t come across as you appreciating value in artistic expression and other intangibles when you say “suck it up and get a real job”. That may not have been your intention, but it can definitely be read that way. I think that is the “boomer” people have commented on.
  
  I don’t think there are really that many people who think social media creators or better than farmers or essential services personnel, and those that do are completely out of touch, but there are plenty of people who see alternative media creators as less than any other job. I personally think A-list actors, celebrities and sports professionals are no better than grocery store worker or warehouse person, but I won’t deny they work just as hard in different ways.
  
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  - Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    My point is that no matter what, if you have success at something, there’s going to be blood, sweat and tears involved. Sisyphus doesn’t complain about his boulder for cheating Death, why should they? It’s pointless.
    
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