from clogs to clogs in three generations

vixnix · 12-08-2019, 08:33 PM

... "and I came in at clogs..." is how that phrase was first said to me, with a wry laugh.

Discuss the labour pains of your downward mobility in this thread

vixnix · 12-08-2019, 08:42 PM

Follow your passion
This is wrong on two counts. First, many passions are hard to monetise. This was true of music and novel-writing even before the straitened economics of those industries set in. Creative pursuits favour downwardly mobile rich kids, hence the oversupply of contemporary fiction by authors who “live in New Haven and Jakarta”, starring characters who fly a lot and feel a bit sad.

guise. judgement day has arrived.

Shallowed · 12-08-2019, 09:13 PM

If this is about something Biden said, we have a thread for that.

reprise85 · 12-09-2019, 12:44 AM

lol

12-08-2019, 08:33 PM	#1
vixnix Socialphobic Location: we are champions, bathed in the heat of a thousand flame wars in the grim future of the internet there is only netphoria Posts: 11,961	from clogs to clogs in three generations ... "and I came in at clogs..." is how that phrase was first said to me, with a wry laugh. Discuss the labour pains of your downward mobility in this thread

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12-08-2019, 08:42 PM	#2
vixnix Socialphobic Location: we are champions, bathed in the heat of a thousand flame wars in the grim future of the internet there is only netphoria Posts: 11,961	Follow your passion This is wrong on two counts. First, many passions are hard to monetise. This was true of music and novel-writing even before the straitened economics of those industries set in. Creative pursuits favour downwardly mobile rich kids, hence the oversupply of contemporary fiction by authors who “live in New Haven and Jakarta”, starring characters who fly a lot and feel a bit sad. guise. judgement day has arrived.

12-08-2019, 09:13 PM	#3
Shallowed Braindead Location: http://forums.netphoria.org/profile.php?do=addlist&userlist=ignore&u=16711 Posts: 17,362	If this is about something Biden said, we have a thread for that.

12-09-2019, 12:44 AM	#4
reprise85 Wizard Location: I'm surprised you guys are so big on rap, considering it's the most masochistic music of any genre. Posts: 31,016	lol