So this is why there is a “Block user” option. Thanks for clearing that up

I thought it had to be either a big number, or a small number. So, yeah.

🤓📕🦋 is this democracy?

I’ll get there eventually

Wow, the hubris is real. Ever heard of impostor’s syndrome? Because you obviously don’t suffer from it

He’s the messiah! Lisan al-Ghaib!

Gadget Hackwrench

Congratulations to Gwyneth Paltrow and Benedict Cumberbatch for their baby

That doesn’t explain the gay frogs, at all.

I wonder how failure is defined (maybe it’s in the article). Because SW companies don’t really care about making SW work, the only measure of success is selling SW teams to bullshit customers for as long as possible.

Lei Feng, the epitome of temperance? He was very fond of long and hard poles, or so I’ve heard.

(And I like how everything is slightly wrong in this meme. Too bad no one was purged in this list)

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They will rip your dick out, Jamie send that video of jacked hairless chimps

Lol your 12! Get in your grave grandpa

Very normal and rational reaction to Bibi’s hateful drivel. I prescribe you nothing, come back to my office when you’re in the all caps, three exclamation marks stage.

You’re really getting out of your way to miss my point. The number of professional writers is some orders of magnitude bigger than the number of billionaires, so much so that taking some arbitrary subset of writers of approximately the same size is easily done.

Another counter example (because I’m really nice like that): some contemporary French writers, just from memory:

• Annie Ernaux
• JMG Le Clezio
• Amélie Nothomb
• Michel Houellebecq
• Erik Orsenna
• Virginie Despentes
• Patrick Modiano
• Christine Angot
• Jean Echenoz
• Sylvain Tesson
• Marie Ndiaye
• Virginie Grimaldi
• Marc Levy
• Alain Finkielkraut
• Michel Onfray
• Mélissa da Costa
• Andrei Making
• François Cheng
• JC Rufin

Yes I know, it’s not 43, but I could easily go to my local bookshop and find 180 more, and again 43 billionaires is a lot for 70 million inhabitants. In any case the number of 500 writers in the article is laughable.

But that’s not the main point. What gets on my nerves is that the author of the article is cherry picking facts to entertain an idea. I could deliberately try something like “but you know there are more astronauts than true painters” and refute everything opposed to this with No true Scotsman fallacies.

The article proves absolutely nothing and the author makes a mess of logical thinking, while managing to blur what the wider perspective is supposed to be.

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He has a wife you know…

Just one then, there are 43 billionaires in France (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_billionaires_by_net_worth).

And there are around 40 people in the French Academy alone. That’s only a small part of French writers.

And 43 billionaires is a rather big number. Compared to Pakistan or Colombia where the comparison would be even more skewed.

Frankly the whole article is just bizarrely defining metrics to fit the narrative.

Given the respective numbers of professional book writers and billionaires, I doubt it very much.