Fuck money. Money makes people miserable and turns those who have a lot of it or crave it insane. Money is only a corrupting thing. We should abolish money. Right after we Abolish ICE, then prisons, then landlords, then the police, then capitalism. We have some steps but hey hypothetically we could get there maybe. 

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Money tears things apart.
I think what I find more annoying than money is when people try to control how I spend it.

Personally, I feel like if I got paid for my hobbies, it would take out the meaning and value to me.

Yeah, I can totally see my hobbies becoming sort of like a chore if I got paid for them... 

Take fan fiction writers. A lot of them want to go pro so they can make some money doing what they do. And hey, some have done GREAT with that, right? 

But if the stress of having to monetize can make it SO not worth it.

This is actually one of the best examples. I have not only commissioned fanfic before but am also friends with a lot of fic writers... I definitely have been the supportive shoulder to lean on for many of them when they were feeling very stressed over both free and commissioned works... I think there's a balance to be found, but balance is hard. 

I want to stress that I don't think there's anything with wrong with monetizing a hobby since we all, unfortunately, need money to live, but I think the problem comes when I am doing something for myself or for a small group and I have this voice in the back of my head saying "could you be making money off of this?? can this fun have a profit??" and I think that's what's messed up. The feeling that I shouldn't be spending time doing things unless they are profitable. 

Enjoying hobbies JUST for the enjoyment is GOOD for you. Mental health is a big factor in physical health.

Making money while doing something you like is a good thing. It's when you start doing it for just the money where its bad. 

I agree with both of those points, but there's something about the sacredness of immersing yourself in something you truly enjoy that I think can get tainted by profit... and sometimes things should just be for me and not for everyone else. But I don't think that means you shouldn't find work you're able to enjoy. I don't believe in the concept of "dream jobs" because I don't dream of labor but I do definitely think there are jobs that are enjoyable and fulfilling, and since we need money to live, making money from that is not a bad thing in my opinion.

THE PROBLEM THOUGH is like any modicum of downtime I find and I'm doing something for myself I enjoy I always have this thought in the back of my head like "should I try to make money from doing this" and I believe that's a corrupt thought.

This is probably a corrupt thought. #JustEnjoyShit

Yeah like so essentially what I mean is I don't necessarily think it's wrong to make money off of your hobbies but I think it's wrong to be like "why am I using my time to do this for free when I could be making money with it" when realistically a bitch ain't got energy to make money so I don't know why my brain even thinks that we could lmfao 

If I can retort with the proper internet style, ahem;
1. Make hobby
2. Hobby make money
3. New hobby
4. ????????????
5. PROFIT

In this example the ???? is finding my will to live 

God, this blogging shit feels good.