What if money was no object?
This is one of those inspirational videos I usually turn my cheek toward, but please just watch it - because it's fantastic and quite thought provoking.
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Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 13:54,
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That's flawed hippie thinking.
Money has power to enable people to do things they like.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 13:58,
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That was funny.
But stretching my post to 'monetarism' is a bit of... stretch.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:44,
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GC
And, it is hippy thinking because if we all followed our dreams then the world wouldn't function. Where would be the farmers, street cleaners, miners? Noone wants to clean public toilets, but it has to be done.
This inspirational video is a last resort for directionless students.
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Money, the universal equalizer.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:09,
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fear fear fear!
This is the sermon of the bastards... all those guys who have life just the way they like it on the back of others.
Sod that. One day I will be standing before my creator, and he's going to ask "So what did you do with the skills and passions and the span of years I gave you?"
If my answer is "paid the mortgage and kept my head down because I was afraid of war and famine, taxes and poverty" I'm going to look a bit of a plum aren't I?
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Why not? His son was an unemployed carpenter after all.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:47,
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you tell 'em, Rik.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:47,
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maybe it's not bad advice
but stuff you might need to hear young rather than after you've got three kids
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rob, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:09,
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Just walk out on them.
Hey presto - problem solved.
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Pig Bodine., Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:31,
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if you want to see what happens when people take advice like this, the main board is that way----,
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:51,
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drivel. far too many people are wrongly encouraged to pursue their creative dreams professionally when they haven't the talent an should stick to it as a hobby.
And far from being Utopian, this advice is downright Thatcherite. His advice should be* 'do something useful and contribute. Look after old people, learn a trade, become a teacher, volunteer.
Finally, I'd have (slightly) more respect for this nonsense if the guy delivering it didn't sound like he's gone from being an Oxbridge student to being an Oxbridge don with nothing inbetween.
*not to me, obviously. I'm far too important.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:23,
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Indeed, if everyone followed their creative dream they'ld be no one working on assembly lines
Making the stuff I design.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:29,
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Chinese actually
Well I want the job done well don't I?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:34,
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http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/following-your-passion-is-bad-strategy/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5OAqGLTyI
Yeah, site is pretty awful, but advice looks pretty reasonable.
Thatcherite? How?
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:36,
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because the central message is 'do whatever you want without guilt and fuck society'.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:43,
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Nah. Looking from here Thatcher stood for free market mainly,
and free market is by it's nature natural enemy of misty-eyed mediocre creative people.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:48,
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not sure how free market capitalism is the enemy of freelance creative types, seeing as that's how they all function. Anyway, you're missing my point.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:57,
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It is not indeed.
Unless you are mediocre one feeling entitled.
I think I get your point, just wanted to point out that it's not what usually Thatcher is associated with (I'm guessing by your sentiment, outside UK that is).
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 15:04,
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Essentially Thatcher preached a creed of selfishness ('there is no such thing as society') an this advice is in line with that, in my opinion.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 15:13,
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Usually this is
presented more in a line of "there is no such thing as society, because there are individual persons, families, all with different needs and problems, and as they are not hypothetical uniform entity, government can not nor should try to cater to all of their needs (as it will indirectly hurt some of them, yes taking money in form of taxes from their house budget and totally blowing it hurts, it's not rocket science)."
But it could be all in my head.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 15:26,
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well, yes. Does that not fit my point? The individual at the expense of the collective.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 15:44,
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The nonexistant collective, at expense of real individual more like.
You are taking money from very real individuals to sacrifice on the altar of some artificial social construct ;)
Taking aside our different views, we can go back on agreeing how original video is clearly deluded :)
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:00,
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"People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation."
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JamTallons, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 16:18,
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without money i wouldnt have my expensive camera that i use to make emotional time lapse videos.
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Doesn't really need the video, it's a good bit of advice.
There's nothing wrong with following your dreams.
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Brandy_Bumwinkle, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:50,
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Unless this advice will make you unhappy and unable to pursue them in long term.
If you like painting, that doesn't mean you will be good (popular) enough to sustain a living on them/ be happy barely earning a rent and living on scrapings.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 14:57,
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Pfft
If you don't give it a go you'll never find out!
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Brandy_Bumwinkle, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 15:04,
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Nothing stops you from giving it a go.
You are missing my point.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 15:06,
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