Especially people living on a writer's salary in New York City in 2019

You don't have to live in New York City to run a content website. In fact, you can live wherever you want and work from home.

Buddy, there's nowhere that you can live where the shoes your children need will be free.

What does that have to do with anything? There are millions of people raising families and working with a lower cost of living to do so.

What it has to do with the topic is that you need money to support a family. Moving to a lower cost of living area does not mean you can support them on nothing, so does not solve the problem we were talking about.

The topic was whether journalists know how to run their business given all their critique.

Seems like it’s either easy and so they should get on with it (and it’s undeniably cheap to get started) or it’s much harder than it looks and they don’t really know what they’re talking about.

The original question was this

> Why don't the journalists who know how to run the business pool their resources up and start a business then? What's stopping them? What do they need those venture capital vultures for?

The answer is super simple - because they would starve to death before they managed to start making a profit. Most people don’t have that much savings for a runway.

Someone said ‘move to a lower cost of living area’ but there is no zero cost of living area to move to until you become profitable.

That’s why they need VC.

This is the same situation that the vast majority of entrepreneurs are in and they make it work. What is so special about journalists that they always need special rules or consideration?

> What is so special about journalists

They’re paid a pittance. They can’t build up any savings.