Thank you for rec’ing that the audience is INVESTING their time in the author. That’s a key point that I bet most don’t appreciate.
Also thanks! for adding real #s to the conversation. 95% of the writers will leave out those exact details ...which are critical pieces of info for those who may want to be a professional writer. It also furthers the point of just how difficult that road is...thus writers ( like you and this piece ) get more street cred from me than miss xyz in NYC bitching about her liberal arts student loan payments finally coming due.
This makes me think of Dylan Mulvaney and the Budweiser problem. Ever notice that the make-up companies that used Dylan saw no backlash at all. Advertising is aspirational and women putting on makeup are happy to do it as well as Dylan. People drinking Budweiser do not want to look like Dylan. I am not even convinced it is a political boycott. Similarly people generally read to escape. Books that sell suck them in as somehow they are relatable. People do not pick up books to be preached to or aspire, in large numbers, to be alphabet people. Telling people what they should like and how they should think is an expression of totalitarian impulses and generally a bad thing.
I agree 100% that the government involvement has ballooned college prices to the unaffordable levels they are today. Sadly 17/18 year old kids are allowed to borrow $250,000 without any recourse at the same time being told by almost everyone that they MUST go to college. And lets not forget about the endowment funds at many of these schools. A book could be written about this. In the end it is all about choices.
Artisan skills and crafts, until they are mass produced usually don’t pave a way to riches do they? They are however well respected. My hats off to those with the talent and resilience to weigh those facts and still preserve.
“She complained bitterly on Twitter about how her student loan payments were going to start up again, about $1200/month, and wondered how someone who was so highly educated could be so poor.”
Hilarious. Being “highly educated” is a luxury in America these days, as you write, Ms. McGhee, and all of us can thank the government for that
Thank you for rec’ing that the audience is INVESTING their time in the author. That’s a key point that I bet most don’t appreciate.
Also thanks! for adding real #s to the conversation. 95% of the writers will leave out those exact details ...which are critical pieces of info for those who may want to be a professional writer. It also furthers the point of just how difficult that road is...thus writers ( like you and this piece ) get more street cred from me than miss xyz in NYC bitching about her liberal arts student loan payments finally coming due.
Thank you !
This makes me think of Dylan Mulvaney and the Budweiser problem. Ever notice that the make-up companies that used Dylan saw no backlash at all. Advertising is aspirational and women putting on makeup are happy to do it as well as Dylan. People drinking Budweiser do not want to look like Dylan. I am not even convinced it is a political boycott. Similarly people generally read to escape. Books that sell suck them in as somehow they are relatable. People do not pick up books to be preached to or aspire, in large numbers, to be alphabet people. Telling people what they should like and how they should think is an expression of totalitarian impulses and generally a bad thing.
I agree 100% that the government involvement has ballooned college prices to the unaffordable levels they are today. Sadly 17/18 year old kids are allowed to borrow $250,000 without any recourse at the same time being told by almost everyone that they MUST go to college. And lets not forget about the endowment funds at many of these schools. A book could be written about this. In the end it is all about choices.
Don’t you diss Joe Shlobotnik, the best baseball player chuck brown ever saw.
Artisan skills and crafts, until they are mass produced usually don’t pave a way to riches do they? They are however well respected. My hats off to those with the talent and resilience to weigh those facts and still preserve.
“She complained bitterly on Twitter about how her student loan payments were going to start up again, about $1200/month, and wondered how someone who was so highly educated could be so poor.”
Hilarious. Being “highly educated” is a luxury in America these days, as you write, Ms. McGhee, and all of us can thank the government for that