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Have Skin in The Game Or Don't Talk About Not Doing What You Love

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But the bottom line on this argument is wrong. Part of the pleasure of living is discovering what we love, and understanding ourselves as having choice, including the choice to trade other things for the freedom to pursue what we love if we wish to do so. Class differentials color that right, of course; but everyone has it, and to say that they don't is to serve oppression while claiming to do the opposite.

Lou Reed, "Men of Good Fortune." I couldn't find a video of Joseph Arthur's version off his new album of covers, Lou, but it's good: check it out.

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