Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Why are people so good at their hobbies?" video.

  1. Does anyone see breathing as work? Do you even know how many breathes you take in a minute? Hobbies and work is a false dichotomy. Both take, time, money, effort, and commitment to accomplish a goal. So its an us problem really. For example, take school teaching, or teaching as a profession. People jump quite a few hurdles to get into that profession. Lots of exams to get their graduate qualification and mentored learning to become a qualified teacher. But notwithstanding their demonstrable focus, commitment, and dedication, new school teachers are leaving the profession after qualification within 5 to 7 years. And they're the ones that even finished their training. Only 24% of those starting teacher training actually go on to qualify. 76% drop out. We have attrition in medicine and nursing too. At one time, according to the College of Nursing, the NHS had over 100,000 vacancies for nurses, which is why we have to get them from outside the UK, because we don't even have enough training places, never mind the student nurses we do have being so broke they eat the patients' left overs and use foodbanks. Criminal barristers who are self-employed, were before their pay rise earning before deductions, expenses, and student loan repayments, around £15 per hour in a job where they have to travel to any court in England and Wales by their own steam to get there at short notice to attend court on behalf of their clients, and could be there for weeks. Their training is 7 years, to earn less than minimum wage. When I was young, these were Professions with a capital P, but now, they're grist to someone's poltically entrepreneurial mill. And we are suffering accordingly. And if these professions have become difficult to stay in, what hope is there for everyone else? These professions and the institutions they work in are part of the glue that keeps our economy and the society in which it exists together and working. A democracy, yet over a few decades they are struggling to do their jobs. To me, The Hostile Environment created in this country is not just for refugees. It's consequence of political entrepreneurs squeezing everyone else for their own gain. And as for the working people of this nation are going to be stretched to find enthusiasm in their work, if they can barely find a living wage in it. Hobbies cost money, time, and effort, just like work. And if all you are doing is working just to meet your living costs, then hobbies become a luxury. Any work is done to meet a need, and pehaps we need to focus more on work and hobbies as means to meeting human needs, rather than just ends in themselves. I mean isnt that what an economy is actually for? Or am I missing something? Do human needs really matter in our society? Or we are just a society where we know the price of everything but hardly the value of anything?
    1