I need to monetize everything around me?

By ROcrypton | Crypto Cartoonist | 21 Apr 2025

One day I heard a monk in one of those videos that we find on YouTube say that meditation was for those who had a full stomach, that is, if you are hungry how can you meditate? I also heard a lot about the fact that some rich people seek a cure for their modern anxiety in Buddhism or Taoism.

"The rich have rich people's problems and the poor have poor people's problems."

And when I say poor people, I'm talking about money, my God! How that has consumed my mind and the minds of many people.

My country classifies me as being in the lower middle class, so I thank God that neither I nor my family go hungry, despite the fact that we work hard to ensure that this never happens... But what about drawing... After all, this blog is about drawing... Calm down, calm down, it is precisely about money, meditation and art that we came to talk about today.

As I write I scribble to see if I can find the new drawing

After turbulent days thinking about ways to monetize everything around me, I noticed a headache and a different irritability, and even a very strange mood swing... I wasn't realizing that I was entering the tunnel of modern anxiety.

I read about it and discovered an epidemic of anxious people, who, even though they have many followers, can't eat a plate of food without having to post, and of course make money!

I realized that this problem is the same problem as working too much, whatever your job may be.

Here I had already found the idea and started the pencil sketch

People upload their profiles, looking for frantic engagement precisely to obtain money, whether through views, advertising or referral links, so it's not that we are addicted to social networks (at least not all of us), what we want is monetization.

here the drawing is already finished in my mind, I just need to make it happen

It's exactly what I said at the beginning: "poor people have poor people's problems" and the main one is the lack of money. Obviously, the internet has brought about monetization opportunities, but with it came modern anxiety. If I can make money with posts, then the more posts and the more creativity in the posts, the better. But the algorithm is cruel and never wants you to stop. It doesn't push a post for long unless you hit something viral, then that's a victory! But what about health!

Meditation is the secret to balance... that's what they told me, but honestly, it's not easy at all. I'm there meditating and thinking about how to make money. Because I need it to survive. Maybe if I had money I could be anxious about other things.

What really heals me is drawing, drawing, drawing and drawing... So I designed my meditation to share with you this thought that combines anxiety and healing at the same time, but the healing is in the practice!