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Requiem For A Roommate
- iamdave 16y agoThank you, Michael.
- br1 16y agoVery inspiring. However, entrepreneurs lie to themselves thinking they want to make a better world. Money is the incentive. Real vocation needs no financial reasons.
- pmichaud 16y agoSpeak for yourself. That generalization fails hard for me.
- br1 16y agoGood for you, sincerely.
- sliverstorm 16y ago> Real vocation needs no financial reasons. Sure it does. How do you propose a man follow his calling if he isn't going to make a dime off it? At the end of the day we all need to put food on the table.
- keegangrayson 16y agoI'm a musician. This is precisely what I do.
- xpaulbettsx 16y agoThis is a great reminder about how changing the world for the better doesn't always have to involve making a living too: "It took me a long time, but as I got older I realized that life was more than just about work, technical innovation and business. Michael and others worked to preserve and protect the values that made life worth living. And while we were making things, they were the ones who were who changing our society into a more just place to live."
- intended 16y agoHad to sign up to say thanks. Its, comforting, reassuring and inspiring that people believe enough to fight without having to be incentivized first. The links to POST and the Coastal commissioner were great too.
- thaumaturgy 16y agoIt would be really, really great -- amazing, even -- if there were support systems for people like Michael. It is (pardon my language here) hella fucking hard to change the world. Nobody else around you is likely to be interested in what you're doing, unless they can directly benefit somehow without any effort. You can't get assistance with your goal unless you have the money to buy it. How many people start out to improve the world, even in some relatively small way, pour a year, two years, or much more of their life into it, struggling the whole way, and eventually give up?