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kane · 09-17-2007, 03:01 AM

My experience is that many people in this biz are normal cool people. But they aren't really the ones that are posting on the boards. They are working instead. I also think that this business draws a certain type of person to it. This is a business where you can literally start with no money out of your pocket. There is plenty of free software out there to use (I don't mean stolen but open source and freeware stuff) You can spend $8 on a domain, have a sponsor host it and look like you know what you are doing. Then you get free content and you are off and running. Even if you only make $350 a week that is more than the average 18-20 year old is going to make working a crappy minimum wage job. When you are used to working for $6.50 or $7.00 an hour suddenly 1400-1500 looks like a lot of money. If you do better it seems like a fortune. I think these young people then start to go a little crazy with their money because it seems like they have struck it rich. They don't think about the business aspects of things and they never take into account that it could change.

09-17-2007, 03:01 AM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	My experience is that many people in this biz are normal cool people. But they aren't really the ones that are posting on the boards. They are working instead. I also think that this business draws a certain type of person to it. This is a business where you can literally start with no money out of your pocket. There is plenty of free software out there to use (I don't mean stolen but open source and freeware stuff) You can spend $8 on a domain, have a sponsor host it and look like you know what you are doing. Then you get free content and you are off and running. Even if you only make $350 a week that is more than the average 18-20 year old is going to make working a crappy minimum wage job. When you are used to working for $6.50 or $7.00 an hour suddenly 1400-1500 looks like a lot of money. If you do better it seems like a fortune. I think these young people then start to go a little crazy with their money because it seems like they have struck it rich. They don't think about the business aspects of things and they never take into account that it could change.