Our culture likes escapism: First, we quit our jobs to escape from offices. Then, we make our own jobs to escape from freedom. We leave one cage only to find ourselves in another, some completely made by our own hands. Under the compulsion of performance and production, freedom is impossible. The solopreneur who quits his job to work for himself... See more

That even though I strive to create and be creative, I have to balance this with decades of capitalist conditioning. I have to be cognizant of my motivation when I’m working in and on my business. Am I desperately grabbing at financial opportunities because I’m worried I won’t get my piece of the pie, that someone else will snag it and I’ll miss

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