| | Robert Malcom wrote: By my last count, there were three or four still in queue... can put in more, but figured on waiting till these got posted before adding... I got four articles past the editors. Mostly, I submit articles, wait a few days and then post them in a discussion Forum. The last example was my biography of Mary Reibey, Australia's pioneer woman capitalist in the Entrepreneurship Forum. In 20 days there, it has garnered neither a reponse nor a sanction. Therefore, I can only admit that my work is not always that interesting.
Other posts have been more successful. I think that many regulars here like reading what they already believe to be true. That is why "Machan's Musings" are front page. You cannot go wrong condemning anti-trust laws, socialized medicine, or the failings of moral equivalence among college professors. Yet, the editor now seems short on articles about how to apply Objectivism to your life.
About a year ago, I suggested that SOLO pay its writers. The response then, as now, is: No one makes any money from this. Rebirth of Reason dot Com is a labor of love. Someday, if the site is successful, there might be an opportunity, but for now, we depend on your benevolence. That sound like communism to me.
SOLO had a business manager who set up an NFP. I have not been alone in suggesting media and materials that could be sold. CafePress (www.cafepress.com) was suggested as a way to achieve this. They already market a small slew of Objectivist, capitalist, and libertarian slogan gear.
The real turn off for me is that the editor wants to publish lots of articles that Joe would write, but he wants someone else to write them. (There are websites like that for college term papers.) I get paid $50 to $100 for articles of 1000 words on any topic I choose. Mary Reibey was one of those. I do 20 a year like that. I have been paid more than $200 for some, and been given literary awards, complete with a plaque, a check, and a large silver crown coin. Apparently, the history of money, its forms and uses, is not inherently interesting to philosophical capitalists engaged in a war of ideas which they intend to win with benevolent activism.
When www.WeTheThinking.com was launched, I sent Nathan an article about academic archaeologists attempting to prevent the private ownership of "national patrimony" which they alone are morally entitled to dig up. (To meet some people fighting for your rights, click on www.accg.us) Nathan rejected it -- and with good comments. If I were to do the work he suggests, it would be a better work. But there are only 24 hours in a day and I already wrote it once, and I can place it as is for pay.
If you look at the threads with the most posts and longest comments, you will see that the primary purpose of this website and its antecedent has been to denounce other Objectivists. I submit that the cause of this is the uncapitalist mentality of social activists who cannot make a profit selling ideas.
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