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WILL TELL's avatar

I have run into this kind of thing among elderly gentiles who feel knocked down from wealth, and sneer on the problems of the youth, seeing us easier to incite and control. I am sure Jews are more socially intelligent but I doubt that was the main issue here. I think the issue is the collaborative model that most alt writers work under, vs, simple honest top down payment, on a ledger, no questions needing to be asked. In a collaborative model, trust is easily violated. In a way I think this is why we do need the "rich." Class hiring class, requires clear rules. Trust is less of an issue. I would like people in these circles to tell me how much capital per year, they want a "man" to have, and how much work they think they could do ( more or less ) per month, on that capital before they would begin to feel genuine trust and stability. Because that, to me, is the unspoken truth: collaboration without hierarchy only works when everyone has enough surplus to not feel desperate. Once scarcity enters the room, “collaboration” becomes negotiation, and negotiation becomes quiet coercion. The rich, for all their flaws, provide structure by insulating trust from hunger, they make the terms explicit, even if unfair. The poor must make the terms implicit, and that is where betrayal seeps in.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

If only one could find a rich benefactor rather than a rich-ish person impatient for her inheritance and desperate for cash now! I agree.

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WILL TELL's avatar

What about a poor-rich person. Give me an idea of what you ideal boss might be working with; say a net ability of 15,000, 20,000, or 35,000: how many writers, and what you would expect to be paid for month, for your ideal publication. I am just curious. Something to keep in mind for coming year. Let us assume, it would be yourself, and 2 or 3 people who have work they think might mean something, and "might" be worth something.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

Oh, that’s too high-fantasy. Actually all I ask for is for the Substack algorithm to actually show the animated sitcom on which I have already spent hundreds of hours to a few new accounts so my possible audience can find me. A fair chance is all I ask and clearly it is still too goddamn much.

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WILL TELL's avatar

If this is an animated sit-com you have worked on, show me.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

Sorry, forgot the link! Past episodes are on my other account, or there’s a link at the end here to the YouTube playlist: https://open.substack.com/pub/nuisanceonlinedistributor/p/a-republic-of-idiots-s1-e5?r=71nc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

I didn’t merely work on it. I made the whole show, from script to puppets to theme music to voice acting!

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Gina Nelson's avatar

"To me, now, she looks like a broken Roomba." She appears like that to a lot of people.

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PapayaSF's avatar

Sorry this happened to you. I once tried to meditate a dispute between Rachel and another acquaintance. It did not go well.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

I can barely even begin to imagine what that was like!

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PapayaSF's avatar

It was brief and not nearly as bad as your experience. Just me trying to be nice and reasonable, resulting in irrational negativity.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

If I were not socially retarded, that would have been what I did

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

But yes, fuck her, she is a creep.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

Unfortunately, the statute of limitations for the crime of embezzlement has already passed. She should have been in prison, but she left me in the hands of a rapist and then ten years’ worth of horror followed.

But I don’t GAF about your stupid opinion, if you read this and that’s what you extracted.

Who the fuck do you think you are, “JessicaJ2”? You can go and believe the earth is flat for all I care.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

But to answer your implied question, I was rather busy putting a rapist in prison, which seemed higher on the priorities list, as it was clear his next trick was to murder someone, and the Illinois legal system can only handle about one felony at a time.

However, this is a bit like talking to a brick wall, since clearly you have enjoyed a ridiculously cushy life. May it not last.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

If you know any good lawyers, feel free to send them my way.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

Wow, this really made me care about your opinion, great job.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

thank you!

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

Ugh, I heard it too. With sort of a snakelike hissing.

Why do people gotta be so strange? And yet boring

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