A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can afford it
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Is it a dirty secret that you can only be a yachtsman/fox hunter/back country skier if you can afford it? Yes, I regard writing as in general a better activity than those. But I don't have an answer.
The way we consider ‘work’ has changed. Working for remuneration is necessary to exist. This wasn’t so a hundred years ago...’work’ is the new normal. Is that necessarily a good thing?
Would the next shift change it again?
In the history I am familiar with, in many places working for remuneration was typical, common, and even expected a century ago. In most cases a person either worked for remuneration to provide for themselves or another provided for them.
Is there some way in which my understanding could stand to be improved?
I'm with you: I know of nothing 100 or more years ago where work wasn't necessary to continue to exist (except among the wealthy, of course).