From: mumble@nomail.invalid

On 06/14/2014 06:46 AM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
> On 6/13/14 7:11 AM, mumble wrote:
>> On 06/12/2014 04:53 PM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>>> On 6/12/14 4:27 PM, Jacey Bedford wrote:
>>>> On 12/06/2014 11:19, mumble wrote:
>>>>> On 06/11/2014 09:24 AM, Jacey Bedford wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/06/2014 09:32, mumble wrote:
>>>>>>> On 06/09/2014 10:17 PM, Bill Swears wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 6/3/2014 5:47 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:
>>>>>>>>> For a current WIP:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You are given one wish (with the usual caveats - no wishing for
>>>>>>>>> more
>>>>>>>>> wishes, no breaking the wall between life and death, no
>>>>>>>>> interfering
>>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>>> someone else's Free Will).  What do you wish for?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> cd
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A three book contract.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Contracts are muse-death.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, dear, of course they are.
>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes honeybunch, they certainly are; compare having a contract which
>>>>> obligates you to grind out the words,
>>>
>>>      Here you show no actual knowledge of how this works.
>>
>> Oh, my.  What I say in response is that if you are only allowed by your
>> family circumstances to write when you are making money from it,
>
> `    No. I'm able to write MORE when I get paid for it.

That's because you are dependent on what you get paid.

>> you
>> demonstrate a lack of understanding of how the real world works, you
>> remain captive to the idea that you must have an employer in order to
>> make money by doing what you have been told, even if you generated the
>> telling yourself.
>
>
>      No. The employer is doing all sorts of work that I do not ever,
> ever want to do. I get paid to do X. If I was doing X by myself, I'd
> also have to do A, B, C, D, and E, none of which I want to do.

One of the benefits of government is that it forces all companies to
provide accounting services, and can then audit the company and even
impose penalties *without* benefit of a trial and the presumption of
innocence.  I don't care to act as the government's unpaid tax slave,
and I don't like what the government spends taxes on, so I don't play
the game.

>> If you want to make money you have to invest your time in something you
>> believe in sufficiently to gamble on its success.
>
>      If your personality goes that way, great. Mine doesn't.

Indeed, every moment I am awake is a gamble, every bridge is burned
behind me.  Mileage varies.

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