Un: TerribleTinkerer | Text

[badnewsandshitlist]

If money has no meaning here, then what do people do with themselves? Adventure for the sport of it? Build things only to watch them gather dust?

I prefer problems that bite back or explode in my hands, but it seems difficult to call that work in a place where every need is already seen to.

So. What passes for an occupation here—when merit and coin are both irrelevant?

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UN: FleurDeParis

[repaintress]

Just because you lack in the creativity department does not mean the rest of us have the same lack.

You could always sleep your time away. I know someone who does such.

[ Sophie. ]

[badnewsandshitlist]

Ah, creativity. Of course. My mistake-I was under the impression that strapping myself to volatile machinery and coaxing it into functioning counted as such. Evidently, I’ve been doing it wrong.

As for sleeping the days away, I’ll leave that to your acquaintance. I’d hate to wake up and discover the city had become even more tedious without my supervision.

[repaintress]

So keep doing it. Work is not reliant on payment or the approval of others.

Money has never had meaning.

[ Easy to say when earning it has never been a concern. ]

[badnewsandshitlist]

“Money has never had meaning.”

On that much, yes, we agree. It is a tool, a symbol, nothing more. A convenient fiction people cling to so they feel secure. Pride, invention, legacy… those are things worth the effort.

But I have shared my life with someone who grew up knowing coin could decide whether she ate, whether she slept safely, whether she saw another day. To her, every copper had weight. And to pretend otherwise would be dishonest.

So perhaps it is better said this way: money itself has no meaning. But to those who have gone without it, it can mean everything.

[repaintress]

It is not the money which drives such people, but what they can achieve with it. Those things are the same in its absence.

Is not creating something new and intriguing its own reward? The process itself hones you into a better form.