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[–] jawsua@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People make fun of Enya's music but it's really well produced and exactly what she likes to make. What a great life, making art you love, really well, never touring, and living with your cats in a castle

[–] lesnout27@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Never heard someone make fun of her, i wouldn t even know why, her music is fire!

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*and however many servants it takes to clean and stock a castle. No way she does that on her own, or she'd never stop

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How much of a mess do you make as one person? It's not a hotel or catering to anyone it's just a home.

[–] deus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One person? Not much. One person and many many cats? Probably a lot.

[–] the_itsb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The dusting alone would be a full-time job.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is exactly how I'm tryna be (I live alone in my house with my dog and my $0.003M fortune)

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Swap the castle for a desert commune and the money for orchards and you got a deal.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would you want to live in a desert?

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I suppose it's just where I currently live and I love it here. Shout out to Albuquerque lemmings!

Edit: Besides lots of sun for the orchard!

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Desert implies no water. How are you watering the orchard?

[–] sol@thelemmy.club -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you really be happy living alone in a castle knowing people out there can't afford to pay rent?

[–] TooMuchDog@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get over yourself man, just let people be happy. It's okay to have nice things, you don't have to feel guilty about it unless you did something wrong to get it.

[–] sol@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't get to live in a 100 million dollars castle while others struggle to pay rent just by doing good things. The music industry is just as rigged as hollywood. Thanks to majors and all these salesmen who make millions there's plenty of real and skilled musicians who don't get half of the recognition they deserve. It's these greedy souls that should get over themself and just let people be happy: once you are a millionare you don't really have to keep squeezing money out of the industry with your albums just so that you can buy a whole fucking castle for yourself...

[–] sockenklaus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the problem here is: When you realize that what you're doing has value to others you won't suddenly start doing it for free even if you can easily afford doing so. There may be exceptions from this like doing charity concerts as a musician, doing pro bono cases as a lawyer or helping your friend renovate their flat as a house painter and decorator. But in general I am pretty sure you won't go from taking money to doing your craft for free.

[–] sol@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are literally typing this in a platform developed for free

[–] sockenklaus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

You do know that the two main devs are working full time on Lemmy and are getting paid to do so by the NLnet foundation?

The software developers equivalent of my argument above would be a developers who's getting paid for their dayjob but still does some work for an open source project in their free time.

It's not about never doing anything for free but about stopping getting paid at all.