If you were an author and you were granted a wish

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Obviously everybody wants to be both rich *and* famous!

Not really. Have you ever heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs? The basic idea is that everyone needs to meet their basic needs first. That's things like food and shelter. Once those needs are met, people move up the hierarchy to fulfil the psychological needs.

Someone who feels insecure about meeting those physical needs are more likely to say money over fame. People who are secure may choose money or fame, depending upon what their psychological needs are. Since people can also plan for the future, they may also seek out a balance between money and fame (i.e. meeting all of their needs).

[Ekaros]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Well, without the challenge of the extreme the thread loses its point.
Obviously everybody wants to be both rich *and* famous!
After that it is just a matter of personal situation and not really well-suited to an open forum.

I'm not sure if I want to be famous. Too much work and too tiresome. I want to be rich so I can have nice things... On other hand once you are rich you can become famous, but not sure if such fame is really positive...

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by BWinmill

Have you ever heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs? The basic idea is that everyone needs to meet their basic needs first. That's things like food and shelter. Once those needs are met, people move up the hierarchy to fulfil the psychological needs.

Heard of it.
And that's *exactly* what I mean by *everybody*.
Obviously not everybody wants it *now*.
But once you get those billion fans or those billion sales, oven the first million...
We're all primates. Very few saints out there.

(Okay, how serious *do* we want to get here? )

[Freeshadow]

Option 1: You cannot get all infringers, but having so much not paying readers means iI 'd be able to sue at least a small fraction of them, the gain would be sufficient.

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by Freeshadow

Option 1: You cannot get all infringers, but having so much not paying readers means iI 'd be able to sue at least a small fraction of them, the gain would be sufficient.

Do you by any chance work for the RIAA?

[Freeshadow]

Nope I looked at it from the POV of german copyright law.

[Fluribus]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Heard of it.
And that's *exactly* what I mean by *everybody*.
Obviously not everybody wants it *now*.
But once you get those billion fans or those billion sales, oven the first million...
We're all primates. Very few saints out there.

There are very few saints, that's why we're so lonely. Fortunately, we're able to bear the burden.

One of my needs is not to get hassled. Autograph and picture hounds would strain even my extraordinary level of patience. If I wanted to be pointed at and told "I can't believe you're here!" I could do it myself.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

My sentiments exactly.

Money = bananas

I'm with the monkey, more bananas!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Ekaros

Whole island with billion sales ;D

Just like Larry Ellison!

[kennyc]

Just to be real, the choices are not real.

I prefer to write for money, but would also like to create at at least one enduring poem, essay, story that makes a difference in people's lives.

and besides if a billion people buy my book, I'll bet at least one of them reads it.

and I'll also be that at least one of those that got it free would pay-pal money to me.

[GA Russell]

I notice that almost every post in this thread says that they'll take the money, but the votes are even-Stephen.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

I notice that almost every post in this thread says that they'll take the money, but the votes are even-Stephen.

I won't vote in public polls.