{"id":189517,"date":"2010-03-17T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/17\/ok-im-depressed\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:48:00","slug":"ok-im-depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/17\/ok-im-depressed\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, I’m Depressed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the New York Times<\/span> interviewed Mickey Kaus<\/a>*<\/sup> on the occasion of his run for Senate, which seems to be driven by his need to cock punch DFH’s, though his primary opponent Barbara Boxer is a woman, which kinds of screws up the metaphor.<\/p>\n

In any case, he was asked the following:<\/p>\n

NYT<\/span>: How much do they pay you?<\/span><\/p>\n

Kaus<\/span>: I had been making in the mid-90s, and then I had to take a pay cut along with everyone else, and I was making in the 80s. I\u2019m fortunate to make any money as a blogger. There are some who make more. Most of them work for The Atlantic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, Brad Delong runs the numbers<\/a>, and comes up with the following:<\/p>\n

Mickey Kaus has written 54 posts in the past ten weeks–that’s an average of 5.4 posts for each week in which he makes $1,800, or $333 a weblog post. This seems to me to be way<\/span> out of line–suggesting some major source of labor-market monopoly is preventing Slate from rationalizing its labor costs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis original<\/span>)<\/p>\n

Well, remember when I commented that I had made 10,625 Posts over the past 2\u00be Years<\/a>, and the first time that anyone asked to run an ad specifically on my content, it was for that bung dropper video?\u2020<\/sup><\/p>\n

The sum total of my creative value is two checks, each for a bit over $100, and a 3rd<\/sup> one should be coming shortly, probably this month as I am less than a dollar away from the check cutting threshold.<\/p>\n

This here is post number 10,710 so let’s figure that I will have gotten $315 for about 10,900 posts, or about 2.9\u00a2 a post.<\/p>\n

If I figured it on a per word basis, I think that I’d retire to a monastery in Tibet, and I hate<\/span> Yak butter.<\/p>\n

Still, who reads Kaus? Seriously.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Who has still not denied that he blows goats<\/a>.<\/span>
\u2020<\/sup>I was turned down, because I could not demonstrate ownership, it ain’t mine, and because they were concerned that butchering a carcass was not “family safe”.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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