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Book Review: Fussell on Class

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136 points DaoIsTheWay | 1 comments | 05 Mar 21 02:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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082349872349872 ◴[05 Mar 21 07:40 UTC] No.26353953[source]▶
In the context of Fussell, I suppose the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26351053 read that "having office hours for your open-source project because you have the leisure time" is upper-middle, whereas "having office hours for your open-source project because you have a growth mindset" is lower-middle...
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1. codpiece ◴[05 Mar 21 18:25 UTC] No.26360087[source]▶
This is a timely comment as I struggle with understanding why I don't want to hustle, why I can't just relax in spite of having a tremendously interesting and well-paying job.

I've had an ongoing internal conflict because I am doing projects for the sheer fun of it with no predetermined outcome, but I feel like I should be #growthhackering instead. I hustled for years, and now I don't need to. I should just let myself be a dilettante. Thank you.