[lbo-talk] Wall Street Book

[B.]

I'm extremely sympathetic to the plight of writers
struggling to make a living off their work. I wouldn't
encourage a writer to give his words away for free any
more than I would encourage an electrician to freely
donate his labor to some big company.

If you're finding it hard to make ends meet lately,
I'd say investigate whatever income-producing
possibilities there are for _Wall Street_. If you're
doing okay, then, yeah, donating it to the public at
large could not only help "the class struggle," but
your reputation -- which, in the end, could be used as
a kind of bargaining power for your next work. Not to
mention that donating it could really enlighten a lot
of minds  and educate a lot of folks. 

You only know what your financial etc. straits are,
though. That should take precedence, imo.

-B.

"I'm not too worried by hegemony / I know the cadre will look after me" - Magazine, "Model Worker," 1978