• drolex@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Given the respective numbers of professional book writers and billionaires, I doubt it very much.

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      2 months ago

      I am sure there are many more people who are writing books than who are billionaires. His point was, how many are making a living at it as their primary career.

      Did you read his breakdown? He made a pretty compelling case that that number is about 500.

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    2 months ago

    Side note, why are substack posts shared consistently, when it looks basically to be blogspam? If I was linking to “billionaire vs books metrics” or whatever, and posted it from blogspot, or tumblr, or even a facebook post, itll be rightly shit on.

    But on a substack? Its discussed like it wasnt written by random internet person instead of a valid source