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just getting around to this episode of @Rarecandypod1. some talk about how people being anti-lockdown was spun as "just wanting to get haircuts" rather than that hair stylist wanting to eat and pay rent /
and it occurred to me how this maps onto defining oneself and relationship to the world in terms of consumption versus production /
i used to get really hung up on people hanging their identities on their jobs but this is what i missed. it's working class people who tend to identify with what they do and/or produce so in this picture it's the hair stylist they are going to identify with
whereas those who put all the agency in this picture on the _consumer_ of the haircut are people who build their identities around what they consume: their preferred music, movies, hairstyles, what political figures they fandom on
I'm reminded of this quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/201306-when-you-don-t-create-things-you-become-defined-by-your
people with administrative PMC jobs where they don't "produce" anything so much as manage stuff are going to tend to define themselves by what they consume and what subcultural tribe membership those consumption choices signal, rather than by something they produce, create, do
