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In reply to the discussion: Customer Beware: You Are Being Tracked [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)I would rather be searched then blown up.
all bloggers sell things and make money
(or have a rich family they can mooch off of.)
Being that they need to pay bills and eat
Any blogger or writer, wants to be bigger.
A blogger would die for the opportunity to have the forum a Maureen Dowd or Frank Rich had.
Look at say Chuck Todd or nate Silver.
two oddsmakers becoming superstars.
Sure some have not survived. I cry for the Abbie Hoffman's who decided to chuck it in instead of preservere and become a voice in 2013.
And any place that does not have security now, is just one shooting event away from having it.
But then auto makers know a part is broken. But 1, 10, 100, 1000 people die and they don't have a massive recall.
But there is an insurance actuary number where, once hit, they have a recall. Because it costs more at that point in doling out payments, than to just recall all of them so the 1001st person doesn't die.
Wars have been going on since day one of life itself
Expecting it to end in one 4 year term forgets so many things, among which the other side still exists
and instead of attempting to rid the world by voting out the Daryl Isaas, one wants to side with them
and stereotype all rich people as bad insted of having those help.
money is only bad if used for bad things
money is good if used for good things
and these alt-bloggers end up like Kolchak, finding a monster a week to survive.
but saying one shouldn't have fun because someone is making money on the other side of the camera, means one can't have fun.
Ignore the camera, or wave to it. Or spit at it.
But the camera will remain there in any case, so might as well enjoy oneself.
People complain about health costs, yet, a little enjoyment makes for less health costs
(one reason the French are much healthier and have a better health system than we do.)