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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

I've given this a few ponders over the course of the day, and I think it's hard to say if you don't give more information. Are you saying you want to stop resisting? What do you think that would look like in reality?

I've had a few friends over the years reach their mid-thirties and start burning out hard. Often it's a really shitty process where they start doing things they never would have done before (even simple things like, buying cheap clothes that you know came from a sweatshop), and are really affected (breaking down in tears) by the change while also just so relieved not to fight it all the time.

If giving up is something you feel like you're leaning towards doing, and, as you say, you have a decent job, one thing you could do that would make a meaningful difference is to put a solid chunk of that money in the pockets of younger, broker people with good politics, so that they can smash for you and not have as bad a money struggle as you might have had. Find a project you think is badass and give them a serious and consistent cash injection.

Maybe your local infoshop is always struggling to make the rent and spending much of their revolutionary energy selling coffee to hipsters so that they can keep their space open. Maybe the local anarchist press collective would print way more books if they had the money. Who knows. But there are badasses out there who could use your dough so they don't have to spend so much time participating in capitalism before they get to smashing it.

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