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Unfortunately buying closed systems hasn’t stopped me from being IT support:

- “why can’t I play online with EA Sports?”

- “I can’t log into Roblox!”

- “why can’t I see my sisters world in Minecraft?”

- “I’ve lost my Fortnight skins!”

- “why does Roblox keep disconnecting me on my phone [when Roblox servers go down]?”

- “Why can’t I play this game [without updating it]?”

- “this game update takes too long to download!”

If there’s one constant in life: it’s that doctors get nagged by friends for free diagnosis, mechanics, electricians, carpenters for free repairs, and software engineers for free IT support.



The constant in life is that there are some people for whom you do things without expecting financial gain.


Cost want my point. It’s that if you have skills then people will call upon them.

I’m also not making a point about whether that’s a good or a bad thing, before you make that assumption too




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