Why the fuck is that so hard and unsustainable. I want to eat and afford rent and organize an archive of knowledge. I want a horde that I get to share with people. I want curious individuals to come to me and ask me to direct them to the knowledge they seek. I want to read and read and read and get lost in my ivory tower. Is that so bad? Is there no plcae in our society for this? It’s so fucking frustrating to receive nothing in response to a job application. I guess I will teach instead of being the esoteric librarian I crave being. Why did I have to be born into a working class family at a time when archivists are becoming obsolete. It’s such bullshit. I just want to preserve the knowledge I love and pass it on to similarly interested people.
it doesn’t help pay the bills but i hoard digital books and keep them in a Proton Drive and a Mega Drive, and i share them in a Telegram channel and sometimes other social media.
as leftists, we know that this type of work is not profitable to capitalists and that is why they won’t pay us to do it.
i’m not sorry you were born working class. i am sorry that our organizing efforts are still too neoliberal-brained to recognize the value of labor that serves our greater good.
Even so called ‘tankies’ are so neoliberal/right-wing libertarian brained. They think they can just use deepseek or something similar to make socialist art and don’t need artists anymore.