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you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

"Maybe not every household needs its own industrial-grade leaf blower."

"Maybe we should accept denser housing and shared infrastructure."

"Maybe private lawns should become community gardens."

all the way to

"You don't get control over your schedule."

"You don't get privacy."

"You don't get to choose your own aesthetics."

"You don't get to decide who has access to your emotional life."

"You don't get to opt out of communal activities."

"You don't get to have tastes that aren't socially approved."

Those are not remotely the same category of thing.

Some people treat all preferences as interchangeable units. They imagine a giant pile labeled "individual desires" and then talk about reducing it by 15%.

But preferences aren't equal.

Wanting three power drills when one shared drill would do is different from wanting control over your schedule.

Wanting a third car is different from wanting a bedroom door that locks.

Wanting a private yacht is different from wanting the ability to listen to music nobody else likes.

Wanting a 10,000-square-foot mansion is different from wanting to spend an evening alone.

The fact that these get lumped together is what makes the discussion so frustrating.

Because someone says, "Well, people will have to make sacrifices."

And I ask, "Okay, what sacrifices?"

And they think I'm being difficult.

No, that's the entire question.

Aw, thanks! I always love it when people like something older I did.

Aw, thanks! I always love it when people like something older I did.

Well maybe I don’t WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe I’ve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and it’s led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I don’t have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DON’T have to work double as hard!! Maybe if there’s the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because I’m already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!

In my opinion the absolute best way would be having robust social assistance for the poor (ideally universal basic income but even lesser alternatives help a lot), regardless of whether or not they're artists.

Ultimately the issue is that for the vast majority of people art is not profitable enough to live on full-time, so they have to do it as a hobby at best. This can kind of work. I know a lot of people who do various types of art for their own enjoyment while also having a job, but if you want more people to have the time and energy to devote themselves into it more fully then their physical needs have to be met whether or not they can profit from art.

Copyright fails at that not just because the rights-holders can screw the artists over but because there is a mismatch in the supply and demand for art in the first place.

A lot of people want to write or draw or make games for a living and in a market context they're often in competition with everyone else who wants to do that because the people who are actually buying their creations have limited time, money, and even attention. It can be hard to get noticed at all, which is a big problem if your income depends on it but tolerable otherwise.

Additional comparative material to the Belarussian meteor and meteorite folklore presented earlier (Avilin, 2006) from various East European countries is given here, to illustrate the similarities and differences among places which seem to share a common ancestry for such beliefs. Additional relevant information can be found in (Bojurova & McBeath, 2003; McBeath, 2003; Slavkovi´c & McBeath, 2003; and Warner, 2003). The fresh items in this article are not intended to be an exhaustive survey for the places involved, merely to illustrate some of what is available. Where possible, the information has been presented in alphabetical order by region or country. To avoid needless repetition, it should be understood that the creatures called zmey, zmok, or something similar, are fiery, often serpentine, draconic creatures in folk-belief, which are frequently associated with meteors. Usually, the creature itself is said to be the meteor, and typically a bright, fireball-class meteor at that.