Love this. I have been posing these questions to myself a lot as well. I think they apply deeply especially to the hustle culture that has taken over writers and other content creators. We're under enormous pressure to manufacture whole universes of content, and why? Why does it feel so imperative that we do it? I appreciated the most recent episode of the Material Girls podcast, which takes on pyramid schemes/multi-level marketing especially through the lens of gender and breaks down how this plugs into our whole capitalist economy and academia in particular, the haunt of a lot of top writers.
Love this. I have been posing these questions to myself a lot as well. I think they apply deeply especially to the hustle culture that has taken over writers and other content creators. We're under enormous pressure to manufacture whole universes of content, and why? Why does it feel so imperative that we do it? I appreciated the most recent episode of the Material Girls podcast, which takes on pyramid schemes/multi-level marketing especially through the lens of gender and breaks down how this plugs into our whole capitalist economy and academia in particular, the haunt of a lot of top writers.
Thanks for reading! I'll have to check out that podcast.