I now contribute to some of the most prestigious online publications in the English-speaking world, for which I am paid the same amount as, if not less than, I was paid by my local alternative weekly when I sold my first piece of writing for print in 1989. More recently, I had the essay equivalent of a hit single -- endlessly linked to, forwarded and reposted. A friend of mine joked, wistfully, "If you had a dime for every time someone posted that..." Calculating the theoretical sum of those dimes, it didn't seem all that funny.
-- Tim Kreider, "Slaves of the Internet, Unite!"
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