so why did you work at a company as a employee or contractor? never understood these kinds of takes..

you should be thankful someone figured out how to capitalize your labor because you certainly were unable to do it on your own.

surely, you can show us how it is done?

Yeah that's kind of where I am too. I'm trying to take solace in the fact that I have more time to build weird gadgets with no commercial value.

It optimizes for value. Art optimizes for quality. Capitalism can also produce surplus, which can purchase art. Yes, I lament the decline in quality of a great many things. I celebrate the new availability and attainability of things previously exotic