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In theory, sure. In practice, our society is a) not set up to value things which don’t have an immediate financial ROI, b) is valuing them less as time progresses, not more, and c) is experiencing some very serious transitions that may destroy the financial viability of devoting a lot of your time and energy to some very important things.

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