[Theo / WildVirtue:]
Personally part of why I'd keep looking for meaningful employment in your situation is that you could potentially encourage your mom to give what charity she gives you now to people in more dire straits, or be able to give away what money she gives you yourself.
Out of curiosity did you get the personal fitness instructor qualification? Why not start pulling in an income continuing down that path?
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[And I reply:]
Re: "Out of curiosity did you get the personal fitness instructor qualification?"
I did indeed.
And the symptoms that would lead to my surgery were killing me during the online classes. I'd lose the ability to even walk, etc., soon thereafter, and begin this long period of recovery (i.e., a long struggle to get back into shape, again and again).
It has been physically impossible for me to work in that field —or in any field whatsoever— during this period of illness and injury.
The video about Hungary ("In Defense of Viktor Orban") shows me in a period when I'd managed to increase the amount I was bench pressing —gradually— after the surgery, but then all this progress would be lost and I'd be back to zero (pretty much) the next day.
(I think you are aware of this but had forgotten it, as it is mentioned en passant in many things that I upload.)
The money earned from working at a gym would not be significant, neither for my mother's charities (she supports many) nor for my own: it would largely be for the sake of socializing with others, and for the sake of the exercise itself. It would earn something like £100 per week.
I've chatted with people who currently do the job, in addition to the information that was included within the course. You can imagine: many of them do it just to motivate themselves to stay in shape.
There'd be more money in working as a bouncer at a nightclub, for instance, another job that requires me to stay in shape and lift weights.
Re: "Personally part of why I'd keep looking for meaningful employment in your situation is that you could potentially encourage your mom to give what charity…"
I am certainly looking forward to seeing you live up to your own principles, old man: you are well aware of my own history of engagement with the charity and non-profit sector (in Cambodia and Laos, yes, but I was also involved in Cree-and-Ojibwe for obviously charitable reasons)… I have heard nothing about your involvement in it.
If you had more experience in charities and non-profits, you might conclude that your anarchist critique of government applies even more devastatingly to these "non-government organizations". You might come to the conclusion that it would be immoral and counterproductive to give your money to them. (This is something I'd researched in political science even before getting involved myself, etc., as you can imagine.)
It is really not the case that people can simply "do good" through the act of donation: you seem to be uncritically repeating propaganda you heard on television as a child. I am now wondering if I discussed this in No More Manifestos (possibly I didn't). It is certainly something I've discussed in the critique of the vegan movement and (e.g.) the billions of dollars lost to the BLM organization.
[I am not listing off examples from my critique of the vegan movement, but I have many times discussed specific organizations that absorbed millions of dollars in donations, accomplishing nothing, or accomplishing shockingly close to nothing: this is a genuine problem throughout the field, even in the business of handing out sacks of rice to starving people in Laos, etc. —and I am appalled at the voluntary ignorance (resembling religious faith, and entailing a lack of moral responsibility) on the part of the donors.]