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Electronic music is actually one of the best ways to make money as an individual artist because you can play both huge clubs and outdoor festivals, which attract hordes of people and you can play every night. I knew a minor rave celebrity in the 1990s (DJ ESP/Woody McBride) and he made over $1M every summer in Europe and then bought a house in the Minneapolis suburbs and retired to become a high school basketball coach. It seems like it would be even better now due to the sheer number of clubs and festivals. I follow Diplo on Instagram and he tours so much that he's making about $5M a year in the worst case scenario.

In contrast, my cousin is a professional violist and he makes $400-$800 per day which is about the same as a mediocre Java programmer.

Another way electronic artists make money is by selling their songs to be used in ads, movies and TV. Aphex Twin has had interviews where he admits that he made most of his money licensing his music to be used in TV ads around the world.

The bluetooth card game is actually a tutorial level kind of thing. Ray Wenderlich and Apple's own docs have a version of it.

Every early stage startup in San Francisco has an employee who is a combination secretary, HR person and vice president of ops. She usually went to an quirky college like UCSC or Evergreen and is often the ex-girlfriend of one of the founders or has some other quirky but never-again-mentioned relation to someone in the office. This employee's main distinguishing characteristic is her high level of quirkiness. Her title is Vibe Director or VP of Vibe or Senior Vibeologist.

This quirky person is in charge of buying the snacks, getting the t-shirts printed, buying white board supplies, paying the bills, picking out the posters, ordering the Aerons and also higher level stuff like finding new office space. When the company gets a new office she is in charge of naming the office rooms. However, for some reason the CEO and other founders also find naming the rooms a very serious and important task. The names can't simply be decided upon, there must be several heated meetings arguing the pros and cons of naming them after San Francisco Streets, or SF Neighborhoods, or cities in California. Since nobody wants to meet in Fresno or Bayshore or on Geary Street, this is a big deal and the meetings generally end with slammed doors, silent crying, and the vibemaster sitting alone in the nameless conference room with a 1000 yard stare into one of the whiteboards.

Then one day one of the investors visits the office and his adorable french bulldog starts humping the VP of Vibe's adorable english bulldog in one of the still-unnamed rooms and a lightbulb simultaneously appears above everyone on the room naming committee's heads.

Bananas in Arizona are $0.57/lb and they were $12/k when I lived there. Apparently there was a banana shortage at the time but the usual price was still 4-5x what I would normally pay.

Clothing is also very expensive. Every time my sister comes back to the states she brings two gigantic duffel bags and stocks up on clothing.

The prices on anything else you want/need to buy like electronics, computers, cars, or bicycles are insane compared to the USA. Or even Japan, which isn't a country known for bargain prices.

I do think there is a bit of frontier pricing happening. Everything seemed cheaper in Melbourne than her town.

That said, she gets paid $95K for a part time job with full benefits. She had a similar job in the states that was full time and it paid $34,000 with minimal benefits.

1. There was no bakery a few blocks away. Maybe there was in 1850, but not in my lifetime.

2. There were two grocery stores, both of which sucked. one sucked way worse than the other, though.

3. The crap grocery store went out of business.

4. Walmart opened up.

5. A coffee shop, bakery, fro-yo place, hockey arena, sports bar, hair salon, tire store, Dollar Tree, AT&T store, and J.P. Edwards mortgage lending place opened up in a cluster around the new Walmart.

You won't ever see the small bookshop version of this story because for the most part, nobody reads books.

The one thing you might see more of is Bookman's style used book shops next to the Walmart. In low reading zones they will sell other used stuff.

For example, at the University of North Dakota, the PA school tuition is $34,287 per year, with no discount to in-state residents. In contrast, the medical school tuition is $24,998 per year for out of state students, and $12,815 for in-state students.

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