I still feel the pain like it was yesterday - eviltoast
  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ah memories. I used to steal school supplies to make origami fortune tellers and sell them to kids in grade school.

    Then I realized becoming an unfeeling capitalist only concerned with profiting off of my fortune tellers was making me into a monster, and I haven’t looked back since. Now if I do origami, it is either for personal use or as gifts. The darkness tested me, I saw what that path would make of me, and I chose the light.

    I may not be an origami mogul, but my humanity wasn’t worth discarding to become one.

    • Anders429@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Whenever people ask why anyone makes open source software for free, I’m going to use this as a metaphor.

    • _stranger_@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I see you fellow anti capitalist.

      I remember this asshole of a kid in middle school selling these neat looking pens for a dollar each.

      I found a box of them at a flea market that weekend and had my mom buy them for me, they came out to like 10 cents each. I sold them to every kid in class for a quarter and shut his shitty grift right down.