Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0
by pessimizer on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:25PM
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> This seems like a wild misrepresentation of what being a writer is. Writers communicate ideas. Their ideas.
That's an idealization. Most writers are communicating the client's ideas, or trying to come up with ideas that they think the client would like. Most writers are trying to appeal to a particular audience for money, and new ideas mostly annoy their target market, who want a new thing pretty much like the last thing.
Aside from that; the thing that differentiates writers is their skill in writing words. A hell of a lot more people have "ideas" than have writing skill. There's absolutely no reason to think writers have better ones; I'd even predict that they would have worse ones because they spent so much time studying how to write, so other people have more time for varied and exotic experiences and learning.
Writers are usually writing about other people; people unlike themselves. What happens when those people can write about themselves rather than being interpreted?
That's an idealization. Most writers are communicating the client's ideas, or trying to come up with ideas that they think the client would like. Most writers are trying to appeal to a particular audience for money, and new ideas mostly annoy their target market, who want a new thing pretty much like the last thing.
Aside from that; the thing that differentiates writers is their skill in writing words. A hell of a lot more people have "ideas" than have writing skill. There's absolutely no reason to think writers have better ones; I'd even predict that they would have worse ones because they spent so much time studying how to write, so other people have more time for varied and exotic experiences and learning.
Writers are usually writing about other people; people unlike themselves. What happens when those people can write about themselves rather than being interpreted?