“If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”—Warren Buffet
Donald Jeffries posted a great article titled Armageddon on the internet—censorship, false flag conspiracy, sheeple minds, the new media, rigged basketball, and war and he’s not, “exaggerating much.” I added my two-cent comment with a direction towards mind-control.
In the comments a reader asked about Substack writers, how they are paid, how do you pay your bills, etc.
I think it’s a fair question and one readers / subscribers may wonder about. I do. God, when will I ever get paid? In 2000 I was writing for several internet sites. I also entered writing contests and did fairly will at that too. Zinos. Com had a $50.00 weekly writing contest. I entered once a month and won once a month. Not a bad gig considering there wasn’t even a word count. The entry also listed my bio and linked my Themestream account which produced additional subscribers. In Themestream’s $50K writing contest I was runner-up. A totally rigged contest. I won that easily and my subscribers were outraged. It’s at this point in my life I awoken to the fact that things are rigged. Vote all you want and THEY will select whom they want.
I secretly fantasized that every great writer alive entered the $50K writing contest, Stephen King, Hunter Thompson, Jesus Christ, and little me advanced farther than all of them. That is how I consoled myself for losing.
The way Themestream paid writers was different than today’s writing blog sites. As I recall once you reached a certain status such as likes, and subscribers you were then on the payroll. They put four yellow stars next to your rating. It seemed like I was stuck on three forever. This kind of forced you to be nice to get the likes and be nice to get subscribers. This was real easy for me because I’m always nice unless you are trying to kill me with a fucking syringe. Then you unleash something else in me and I think my smart readers can see it in a lot of my covid writings—RAGE.
Themestream claimed 500,000 visited their site daily and I plotted and planned to route them all to my account. Companies liked all this traffic and paid TS to put their ads all over the place. There was always an ad attached to each one of my posts--fine. TS was making money off these ads and taking some of that money and paying us, “contributors,” out of their profits—Great. Anyone could read me for free. TS paid me per view based on the amount of traffic I brought to their site. Sounds perfectly fine. My payment for anything I published wasn’t negotiable—10 cents per view. Very simple. Would any Substack author turn down that deal? I was paid while I slept.
Today, I’m hoping whatever I write someone would say, “Ok, that’s worth 10 cents,” or at least a nickel. I should make a sign that reads, I’LL WORK FOR A NICKEL and stand outside the governor’s mansion. Although, I doubt he reads. He’s told what to do.
I was paid every week. Remember when your dad was paid weekly or your grandpa? A good deal. A better deal would be if they pay you daily like they did in the old days. Money flowing everywhere then, no bullshit debit cards, or credit cards. My weekly check however varied. It could be $234.22 or it could be $860.90 which was approximately what TS owed me when they pulled the plug shortly after some nut cases knocked down some buildings in New York. As you can tell my subscribers greatly increased from 1/22/2001 ($234.22), until 9/11/2001 ($860.90). I was on my way to fame and fortune. I’m glad I didn’t give up my day job.
Author note check amount explanation: I was paid in dimes of which the check amount should be in increments of ten. The 22 cents you see is on the check is because TS took taxes out and gov F’s up the pretty number 10’s once again.
I don’t know how Substack pays so I can’t speak on that and I’m oogles of subscribers away before I even have to address it. I didn’t come here to write to get paid, and quite frankly I don’t know how I feel about making money for writing about a genocide we are all living in. I’m writing about my efforts to stop a genocide and hopefully save someone. My readers get to read about my Covid 19 genocide ride in hell and my efforts to stop it. I’m crazy enough to think I can.
Perhaps down the road I have a donation button down at the bottom of each article. If you feel what I wrote is worth a dime donate 10 a dime. If you feel it’s only worth a nickel, donate a nickel, but that’s as low as I go. It has to be worth more than a penny, “come on man.” Remember I almost won a $50K writing contest and how many Substack authors are writing about crows, owls and ghosts? Owls are smart, crows are too. Crows would argue they’re smarter.
I hope that clears up some of the confusion on how THEY make a living as a writer. I hope to get there someday. I’m only about 21,693 subscribers away. It’s right there.
Love this bit, Mike: "This was real easy for me because I’m always nice unless you are trying to kill me with a fucking syringe. Then you unleash something else in me and I think my smart readers can see it in a lot of my covid writings—RAGE."
You express my attitude perfectly. I have never felt more enraged about anything in my entire life as I do about these ghastly injections and the unspeakably evil propaganda accompanying them.
Also, give serious consideration to the Donate button. I would most certainly pay for some of your posts! Especially anything to do with owls.
As for the relative IQ of crows and owls -- the crows might be smarter but the owls are wiser.