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Originally Posted by Hitch
Calvin:
And how do you know that all these authors are "making enough to decently live on?" I think that's the entire point that they are trying to make. They're not all Dan Brown or Rowling, y'know. Being listed for the Booker doesn't mean he's independently wealthy. I think people here have a bizarrely distorted idea of what the average--and I mean, average--author really earns.
And, by the way: lucky you, that you manage to earn doing something that you think is fun, and don't consider "work." You do realize that most people aren't in that situation, don't you? Very few people are so fortunate.
Hitch
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I wonder why people pursue a profession that is so poorly renumerated. Nothing stops them from pursuing some other profession that is more renumerative. After all, if money is what counts....