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Have fun with that. But … I’m not in a position to have such a luxury. I got a family to feed and bills to pay. Idealism died when I got a mortgage and got married.

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Wouldn't idealism be believing you can do nothing and everything will be absolutely fine?

Your idealism manifested as practical flourishing when you started a family.

White collar protests are a rich 300-700k+-a-year-engineer luxury. Not for the rest of us.

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