love to write, think, draw, and play video games. icon by @pocketghosts
perpetually angry at this world for making perfectly capable people believe they're worthless, because they have trouble shaping themselves into a form that makes it easy for companies to extract their labour power.
because it's a good thing to remember at all times, but also because I just encountered another one of these situations.
the highly relevant and not at all socially corrosive Forbes 30 Most Useful To Capital list
I have plenty of skills i literally cannot monetize, so to society im useless...
I literally went off on tumblr just yesterday about how it took me years to unlearn this way of thinking and start seeing myself as worthy/useful in ways that aren't "producing capital"
I really appreciate reading this right now after a frustrating streak of "you were a really strong candidate but we decided to go with someone else"
