This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff

Wheat, while for the most part I agree with your essay up there, there's a part I'd like to contest. For the most part, I feel ability to focus on broad, abstract, real world issues is easier when one has more free time, not less. When I was working 60-70 hours weeks I spent all my free time on cartoons and shitty VNs; when my parents came home from work they wanted television or books and not political discourse. This is all obviously personal anecdotes, but I feel it makes sense, too; putting energy into things with no immediate personal consequence seems easier when one had more energy to spend.