• Mirshe@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    See, that’s the thing these guys don’t want to understand. There could be a thousand generational talents like that "right fucking now*, who have these enormous gifts and won’t ever be able to realize them because they gotta go to their third job so they don’t fall behind on rent AGAIN.

    Your Uber driver might be a virtuosic violin player who’s never realized it because he’s never had the opportunity to try. The cashier at Taco Bell might be an amazing painter, who can’t afford to paint because every last cent has to go to one bill or another. That kid in Ghana you’re watching on the TV charity commercial might be the next talent in rocketry or physics or poetry or any of a dozen other fields if they had a shot.