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The "read the rest" button seems broken in Firefox on Windows... so that makes for a very short post.

I’m interpreting the submission as just what can be read on the page, but I still liked it. Brief and to the point.

I appreciate brief and to the point. It's a world that's rapidly going away thanks to LLMs' love of over-explaining everything.

That's only two ways to get paid, so it's either title is wrong or there's a missing part.

Getting paid is entirely consistent with going broke. Gross income doesn't have to be zero to be less than expenses.

To be fair (and perhaps overly pedantic), while the article title is "three ways to get paid," the quoted maxim begins "there are three ways to make a living."

It then goes on to say that the third way will make you "go broke", which seems somewhat contradictory.

Ha I reached that and thought to myself "do I need to read any more?"

Heh, well I was kind of thinking, this sounds like something someone in sales or content management or marketing might think is pithy and thoughtful. And we are (or just were) in the "Information Age", so that's what has value. But also, there are lots of other ways to um... make money. Unless you try to twist your brain around "well selling kids' toys to parents is selling lies to someone who wants lied to" or something perverse like that. shrug Maybe the big article does a great job of exploring these ideas, but I don't think they stand up to much scrutiny.

The URL: #replace-with-the-found-url

From searching the text, it seems it hasn't been published on the WSJ.

So the author lied and they are trying to get rich?

Author never told us what happens when one lies to those who seek the truth... is that on a different plane of reference?

You get paid, but it does not last

Then you become a poletician, though I guess that could also apply to lying to people who want to be lied to.

That earns you a special position as one of a pair of guards in a labyrinth with two doors, one of which leads to freedom and the other to... ba-ba-ba-bum - certain death.

> … ba-ba-ba-bum - certain death

ftfy

If they're a writer there, I would assume it's simply still in the pipeline.

It's also broken for Safari (on Mac).

And Brave

Same in Firefox on Mac. Links are hard, I guess.

No go on Safari mobile

He is obviously lying to us and becoming rich in SEO from our clicks to his page.

Took me a second. The reference "replace with found url" is a lie if the URL is not found.

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