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It's Time To Shift Our Expectations
"The Cream Rises To The Top," what more is there to say. The Internet is a tool that needs to be mastered and like every tool, more money will be spent for better quality and the better the quality the higher the price. Think of the Internet as a huge retail store where the most expensive stuff stems from demand but low availability, if you can produce something that's better, you'll get paid, if not, you'll be sitting on the shelf. We need to shift our expectations, instead of what or how can the Internet work for us, we should ask, what can we bring or add or create for the Internet?
For Better or For Worst
The Internet is not what we hoped it would be and like most things in life that are anticipated, disappointment often ensues. The time has come to accept this and move on and use the Internet to our advantage to promote ourselves, create visibility, participate, reach-out and respond to the existing community. Anyone who is able to do all of those successfully understands the value of the Internet. These people aren't complaining about not getting paid because they are getting paid, the online community pays respect and that's about all the Internet can really do and that should be enough, that should be satisfactory.
Is It Just Me?
There's something wrong with believing that you deserve to be financially compensated for work that you would have done either way. Plus, what makes people think they are so special that the Internet community will somehow gather around their content and actually want to pay for it when everything else on there is free?
The economics of scarcity, reveals so much about why people are willing to pay for certain things, because they can't get it anywhere else! That's why making money online is practically impossible, because nothing on the Internet is scarce enough to entice people to pay for them, you're writing included.
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