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i don't think i could like. emotionally handle being in a position where my financial stability depends on people liking me as a person

even if it worked i would probably spend an unhealthy amount of time worrying i'd fuck it all up somehow. adjacently i suspect crowdfunding would feel less like being my own boss and more like having hundreds of bosses.

running a small business feels like it'd be kind of a spectrum. people can exchange money for your goods and services exclusively because they want them, exclusively to support you, or for some mixture of those reasons, and it's probably difficult to know how resilient you are unless you're finding out the hard way that it's not very