This is both remarkable and sad. A scheduled suicide blog post: https://willopines.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/punched-out/
I get his reasons. It's tiring to be an obligate social creature when you're not good at being social.
But if you go down that mental road, consider that the opinion of "the masses" will always be irrelevant and usually somewhat dumb. It's okay to be bad at social interactions, too.
It's not that "nobody cares", it's that it's irrelevant if anybody cares as long as you do.
@redacted Thing is, I perfectly get where he's coming from. I create things. At least some people tell me they are good things... And that's usually the extent of it. The value of my work is *considered* transitory, despite my livelihood depending on it being shared and spread, supported, and the like.
To gain that value, I have to play in a sport that I have never been taught to navigate, and still haven't worked out to this day.
@TMWReviews It's because almost everyone is winging it, I guess ;)
I left out the financial aspect on purpose, but yeah, that one is difficult and not entirely separate from the psychological one.
If your livelihood depends on "marketing" (in a broad sense), you probably have to learn it, even if it's not your forte. I'm not fond of that, hence e.g. a basic income would be nice.
