There seems to be some confusion so I want to clarify myself.

Making art for the joy of making it, to satisfy ones need for expression is not work, until it is "commercialized", in the market.

If you exchange your artistic skills for money/wants of survival, it becomes work.

"The things which until then had been communicated, but never exchanged, given, but never sold, acquired, but never bought - virtue, love, conscience - all at last enter into commerce"
- Marx

Song of the day 🦖🦏: https://spotify.link/wdQLrFI3lDb

TIL: The Nazis never bothered to repeal Germany's Weimar Constitution, which strongly protected personal liberty. Instead, Hitler legally invoked an "emergency" that allowed the government to take any measure it wished to "protect public safety," rendering the constitution effectively powerless. [source, comments]

TIL The specific wording "the pen is mightier than the sword" was first used by author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, the same guy whose intro sentence “It was a dark and stormy night.” inspired a contest for the worst opening sentence for a novel. [source, comments]

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Song of the day 🛶🌎: https://youtu.be/nHKRSc7V6g4?feature=shared