That’s impressive. Genuinely curious, did you not know about oil changes, or did you just not have the time/money to keep up on it?

Speaking of free courses, Nand2Tetris is excellent for learning how CPUs work.

To add: Krita and Inkscape are both excellent free programs for making 2D digital art.

OpenStreetMap surveying is an excellent hobby. I’ve been doing it for years.

I believe you are thinking of Marxist-Leninist ideals. They call themselves communist, but they believe that they can bring about a stateless society (communism) by seizing state power, which is deranged. You cannot achieve a goal through actions that are opposed to said goal.

That might be true if words had no meaning, but fortunately for us, they do! A communist society is a society that is moneyless, classless, and stateless. Given that most so-called “communist” revolutions ended up seizing state power instead of abolishing it, it’s no wonder why they all failed to achieve communism.

On the flip side, capitalism is an economic system where the means of production are privately owned. There is disagreement on whether fascism constitutes it’s own economic system, but the fact remains that it has historically emerged from capitalist states in crisis.