So this idea that everybody should be hustling, that when you get home from work you shouldn't relax and enjoy yourself but you should make something you can sell...

If we're all hustling, who's buying?
My life is a weird kind of hustle because my body and brain betray me in ways that make it hard to hold down a 9-to-5 (LOL, like those exist outside of increasingly specific contexts) and so in order to live I have *got to* hustle when I can, as I can.
So I sell books and I write newsletters and I perform on Twitter and I have a Patreon, and I'm *good* at the hustle, so, again, subject to the fact that I cannot account for what my body might do, I do okay and frequently better than okay.
If I took all the money I make in a month and just put it in a bank account -- or an investment account -- my finances would be so solid. If I didn't use my Patreon to support anyone else's. If I never turned around and tipped someone else out of my PayPal tips.
But my hustle only works because enough other people don't feel that way.
If we all decided we're going to be Scrooge McDuck, working for every dime and spending not a penny more than we need to... then who's paying for our side gigs? Who's buying our crafts? Who's tipping into our jars?
The measure of a healthy economy is circulation. We can joke about queer folks and activists of all stripes or whatever passing the same $20 back and forth, and people who don't get it look at it and say "they must be money laundering" (no, for real)...
We literally can't all be entrepreneurs, any more than we can all be CEOs. Your start-up needs customers.
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