Will Work For Praise - BusinessWeek
This frightens me.
I’ve spent since seventh grade working on how to effectively gather and convey information through print (and sometimes broadcast) media. I’ve taken grammar and research courses and I’ve written articles about everything to high school sports to Big Daddy Kane.
But all of that is worthless, it seems, because we as a people don’t see the difference between my well-worded prose and the scribbling of an amateur. Content costs money. That’s why actors and writers get paid. But we’d rather watch videos of cats attacking printers.
I've been trying for weeks to land new writing gigs. And I've cobbled together a couple of interesting ones (more on that later). But even with those, I still need to spend 20 hours/week teaching kids the ins-and-outs of the SAT to keep a roof over my head.
What happens when we don’t pay for content, when the modern-day storytellers can’t live off of their skill? Then we lose one of humanity’s most enduring arts.
(This is me being bitter today.)
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