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Earn Something To Say - by Chisel and Anu - Chisel

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You can't fake having lived

Illustration by Andrei Cojocaru Pop stars pen essays now – 2,000-word meditations on the existential weight of fame. Public figures launch podcasts because yapping is how you capture the voting masses. Founders commission films to canonize their fledgling start-ups as inflection points in human civilization. It is no longer enough to do something. Everyone feels compelled to say something too. The creator and the commentator have all but collapsed into the same figure. And if you haven’t made anything, you become an internet judge of what everyone else has said, done or made. Saying…

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