Originally Posted by elphenor

I think being a drunk is romantic if you can somehow pay the bills doing it without mooching off anyone

so basically a lifestyle reserved for writers, musicians, etc

but they usually don't end up as happy as even your average day laborer

which would bring me to the communist point that work could be liberating indeed everyone would benefit from a day job provided it was creative work under their own control rather than renting your body out, but whatever