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lol..I missed you:)

I am not trying to get rich or make money with my life. So long as I have minimal food, shelter, and entertainment, I’m fine. Greedy, money-grubbing people are the reason we’re in a depression. I’ll not become one of them.

I am a writer because it’s how I choose to contribute to the world. Not because of money, but because I feel I have created so many stories that are worth sharing with others.

F**k making money. Greed will be the death of this species.

Um… can I reply “Hippy commie f*ggot who hates capitalism and human society in general so powerfully that they refuse to participate even if it means living in grinding poverty”?

Hm. In that respect, I don’t really care where I work, so long as I’m spreading the infection of my imagination.

It doesn’t matter. I know the places each story will generate interest. All I have to do is plant each in it’s place, and the fans will spread it to others on their own.

Not quite…

If I were to write a comic about animals that walk and talk like humans, I know the subculture I’d need to introduce it to. On the other hand, if I were to write a novel about a fictional biography, I know where to introduce it as well.

In more conventional terms, I know where to “market” my work. The difference is that I’m not doing it for money, I’m doing it so that it reaches more people. If people like it, and it gets popular, great. I’ll be able to save it for one of my larger, more costly endeavors. But I’ll never hoard any more money than I need to survive in the world the way it is.

I’m not trying to be difficult on purpose, honestly. I know I’m diverting the post a bit.

My real “work” can take place anywhere. Anywhere I write, or am inspired to write. So I may very well be working from home, but I could just as easily take a walk and be working from the park down the street.

Eh… I suppose you could interpret it that way. But that’s… well, that’s not what I’m saying at all.

I’m not talking about where or what a home is.

hey Xeno - do you think you could get away with a user name of “Hippy commie f*ggot?” :PPP

3 - and love the attitude! (no sarcasm! - i am the same way :) )

as you say - Greed will very much be the death of us - communism would be such a lovely system, if it wasn’t for people :P

anywhoo - Most-wanted - i think you should make a new slot for “hippy commie f*ggot” - would be interesting how many go for it!

We aren’t in a Depression; in fact this quarter is the start of the recession despite the fact that we have been told we where in a recession as early as last year. I never understood the tendency for people to sensationalize just about every major event that happens now a days.

But to answer your fundamental question; It would all depend on ones skill base.

It may not turn out to be a huge recession; the fear that it may is real and legitimate, but it has yet to materialize and it may never. For example emery costs where a leading contributor driving that fear, but know energy costs are down considerably since the fear took hold. If more things like this go our way, then this could be your normal every 7 to 10 year recession.

emery = energy

the Nobel Prize winner (Economics) this year is prone to sensationalism just like everyone else. Current problems always seem bigger then past problems, because they have to be dealt with rather then just remembered.

But the Nobel Prize winner is or course correct and there are many vast and quite interwoven difficulties and for sure this has not been a small blip. What happened to china last year was a small blip, a normal recession would constitute something bigger than a small blip and what we have now could never materialize into a huge recession but would still not be a small blip.

Xeno, Not all greed is bad. What about a thirst for knowledge? If you want to share your stories like me then surely you know that people deserve freedom of thought???

Kieron

LOl, yes Im sorry :)

I do both my self, but for others it would have to depend on their skills

I will say though, it is my company job that I really on for stability. While I could “survive” on my privet business, the company job provides a lot more benefits that I would not want to do with out, or have to pay for myself.

k4kiero wrote:
Xeno, Not all greed is bad. What about a thirst for knowledge? If you want to share your stories like me then surely you know that people deserve freedom of thought???

Kieron

That’s different. By hoarding knowledge, you’re not keeping it from anyone else. In fact, knowing it enables you to spread it to others, making it available to even more people.

Xeno Dragon wrote:

k4kiero wrote:
Xeno, Not all greed is bad. What about a thirst for knowledge? If you want to share your stories like me then surely you know that people deserve freedom of thought???

Kieron

That’s different. By hoarding knowledge, you’re not keeping it from anyone else. In fact, knowing it enables you to spread it to others, making it available to even more people.

Where you to hoard knowledge would that not mean you are keeping it from others.

Knowledge is kept from people all the time. in that sense its no different from greed of money.

How do you figure, Da? If I have a dollar, no one else can have it until I give it away/trade it/buy something with it. Conversely, if I know that 2+2=4, does that mean that no one else is allowed to know it as well? I’m not saying information CAN’T be kept from others, but then, I’m not trying to do that, am I? If anything, through sharing my writing as my life’s goal, I’m inventing new knowledge and spreading it to as many people as possible.

I didnt say you where trying to do that, only that it can be done

Da⌐11 wrote:
I didnt say you where trying to do that, only that it can be done

Well, then we’re in agreement through perceived argument yet again. I never argued that it couldn’t be done, only that it was not something I partake in or admire in another; just like material greed.

Xeno Dragon wrote:

Da⌐11 wrote:
I didnt say you where trying to do that, only that it can be done

Well, then we’re in agreement through perceived argument yet again. I never argued that it couldn’t be done, only that it was not something I partake in or admire in another; just like material greed.

I guess I was thrown by the word hoarding; as hoarding suggests keeping a recourse for your self; not simply accumulating it.

Well… they are synonyms. They can have slightly different uses, though, so it’s an honest mistake.