Imo, one of the most damning aspects of capitalism is that it encourages people to have consumptive hobbies over creative ones.

It actively seeks to bar people from doing things like cooking, or writing, or making pottery, or anything else of that nature. Activities in which you are making something

Things like that are made either too expensive (in terms of money, or time, or both) or framed as something not worth wasting time on, because you can't support yourself doing art/writing/etc

Just saw a very very good post with a profound discussion of gender roles... and the content warning included "Cis-Males just don't get it".

Which frankly, disregarding cost more spoons than reading the entire 4-page post. Don't use your content warnings to complain directly about people!

@thegibson I can't say it's related, but doesn't this quote from the recently released FB emails sound an awful lot like the #fediverse ?

"The number one threat to Facebook is not another scale social network, it is the fracturing of information / death by a thousand small vertical apps which are loosely integrated together,"