this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
372 points (99.7% liked)

Funny

10018 readers
1787 users here now

General rules:

Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the mods.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Also, newspaper writers were paid like shit. E.A. Poe was the editor of a fairly big newspaper and a published author (though not very sucessful except for The Raven) and was still constantly on the verge of financial collapse.