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transcript"Pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing, and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors, so now it's like 'the point of doing them is to get good at them' and not 'this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives.'"

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[โ€“] aesthelete@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Capitalism causes us to commodotize everything. I saw this switch as well during the 2000s in Internet culture. It went from people making websites about their cats and stuff to people chirping out "but how will that be profitable?!" in response to most ideas.

[โ€“] Irelephant@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

I remember 11 year old me trying to monentise a crappy weebly site I made.