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[โ€“] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, guess I'm scabbing on you all because nobody pays me, I just do it for the love of the game.

I did, long ago, dream of exiting the rat race so I could fulfill my dream of being a left-wing demagogue getting paid to spit fire in the faces of the powerful. Alas, I had no idea how to get started, then I read something by Nathan J. Robinson, the most prolific socdem essayist ever, where he said all his work gets him about $15K in profit a year, and I concluded that my dream would not come to pass. Man is at least 10x more prolific than I could be, writes less confrontational and therefore more accessible and publishable stuff, and is the editor and owner of a magazine. All for not enough to live on in any big city? Shit, the problem is that the left is the side of the people who don't have money. Only way to make a good living doing politics is to work for the right wing which I obviously couldn't so because while I may be a spineless cuttlefish, I still have a hard aragonite core that cannot bend and betray my principles.

[โ€“] Pieplup@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You could definitely make money as a centrist. It makes alot of cents if you think about it.

lol, punny on two levels, I like it ;)

Centrists wouldn't like me, I've been told I'm "not boring" so there goes any hope of a centrist grifter career