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1. 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 02:41:39 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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   • Charlie Stross
   @cstross normies see dollar signs and fall for it, your coworker right now is looking at Bitcoin prices wanting to take the easy way out to quit his wagecage job
   • Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 02:41:43 JST Charlie Stross

     This scam relies on the onlooker's ignorance of a key element of the reader/writer ecosystem: readers have finite time for reading, and their time is inelastic.

     The very first sentence in the pitch asserts that it's easy to write a bestselling book (with or without AI assistance). But if that was the case, why isn't everybody doing it already?

     Books can't all be bestsellers, because the customers' reading time is inelastic. So they buy on perceived quality. So this is a grift. QED.