So I should sell my computer, and have NO way of earning money at all? Even occasionally?

I can't get a "normal" job because I get sick. Sorry. I have to live with it.

Everything I have, I was given. The people who gave to me were merely getting rid of their old stuff - should I have paid them for it so that I wasn't "stealing"? With what?

Until a friend gave me $20 this month, I had -$4.60 in the bank. And nothing is coming in. I have my apartment by the grace of friends. As if the government will give me enough money to live on! If they did, they would be admitting that their environmental policies have created people who cannot live normal, healthy lives. And big business would be liable. Since big business pays for campaigns, not people who have no money anyway, big business calls the shots. And the poor suffer.

Sorry, I was serious. Survival comes first. And while I'm merely survivng, music really helps to lift me out of the depression that comes from NOT being able to pull my own weight in this fucked up society.

I give when I can. And I know that it can never be enough to repay what I have been given. And yes, I would do this again. And so would they.

"It is more blessed to give than to receive" - ever wonder why? Because of the crap that people try to put on you if you're not on the giving end. If you have something to give, you're already blessed.

Oh, and by the way, I tend to stick to INDEPENDENTLY FREE music. But I'm not above thanking a friend for a mix tape, made especially for me.

...But as I said earlier, if you've never been poor, there's no way you'd understand.

So I'm not going to bother to try to explain it anymore. I just wish that it wasn't necessary for people to actually live in poverty to be capable of compassion.