Imagine writing something with such honesty & the people reading don't stop to reflect on how this is just one facet of how the systems they prop up push people into operating to survive. They just judge the person, as though they live in a vacuum.
It's entertainment, not true confession or activism, and it delights in getting under the skin of squares who can't tell.
No need to push back on the people reactively criticizing the character or writer -- that's the point.
(None of this is to say you need to like the blog post, you might hate it on its own merits, but I definitely think there are a lot of people here who think it's a bad piece because they disagree with the choices the protagonist makes, which I think is a very limiting view.)
You're right, and it's what edgy teenagers can do in their sleep, aka middle school math class. I would much prefer he created actual art (written or visual) I could care about.
Imo the story could have easily been a piece of poetry and I would probably have enjoyed it more.
Why would a corporation deliberately hire a video artist and music video director instead?