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He's writing for exactly the right audience: The people who appreciate this kind of long-form thing and support him via Patreon, i.e. actual money.

Your post would've been better spent by suggesting a TL;DR paragraph at the top.

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I was about to question your pronoun use because I thought eev.ee was a woman, but then I checked their about page and encountered this: "I respond to any pronoun; pick your favorite." Interesting approach.

Just as an aside, I checked out his Patreon page, and it looks like he earns around $850 a month for blogging. With that kind of money rolling in, you'd expect some pretty long essays. Or high quality short ones.

That kind of money? That's not enough money to live in a cardboard box and eat ramen noodles three meals a day.

Au contraire! Cardboard box: free (salvageable). 90 packs of generic ramen: $90 at most.

Malnutrition and exposure leading to chronic ill health and reduced lifespan: priceless.

I'm assuming that he is not making a living solely based on his blogging. It's seems like a side gig, to be honest

Depends on where you live. I bet you could comfortably live for few months for 820 USD in Thailand.

You don't have to go all the way to Thailand. Eastern Europe (and I do mean the part within the EU!) is livable on that salary or even as low as 500USD if you're really frugal and literally eat beans, oats and rice all day.

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