If you understood, you could not talk of owing debt. Sam is a part of me and I’m a part of Sam, forever and ever. And it was long ago, when I was very young, that I learned that. But it was true and nothing can change it.
INGRID BERGMAN as LADY HENRIETTA FLUSKY in UNDER CAPRICORN (1949) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Every single craft has been paying “The Passion Tax” for generations. This term (coined by author and organizational psychologist Adam Grant) — and backed by scientific research — simply states that the more someone is passionate about their work, the more acceptable it is to take advantage of them. In short, loving what we do makes us easy to exploit.
If the phrase “vocational awe” isn’t part of your lexicon yet, stop scrolling and read Fobazi Ettarh:
Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.
I see it in every field I’ve ever worked in: publishing, open source software development, higher education. It describes pretty much every industry that relies on creativity, altruism, or both.
too many people on this site claim to be into toxic love cannibalism gore blood violence weird gross sex etc etc when it’s like 1. you are scared of having even regular sex and 2. you can’t even drink a beer bc it’s too icky like i don’t think you’re gonna be chugging human blood any time soon 👍
It’s not “everyone” acting like it’s normal. The majority of people know something’s wrong they just don’t have the tools to fix it. Maybe a plurality don’t know that the problem is capitalism, they blame it on something else, but they’re still aware there’s a problem. “Everyone” is just too exhausted from working 4 jobs, 50 hours a week to scream into the void in their spare time.
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