Chris Best

Corporate interests, or there was sort of like a... Maybe the way I would put it is like the narrowing of allowable perspectives reached a fever pitch and...

jettisoned a lot of the original thinkers.

Like, the people who were least likely to go along to get along were the most likely to get caught.

And a lot of them would start a substack and instantly make huge amounts of money.

I mean, I had this conversation I'd have with people.

Or I'd say, hey, you should consider starting a substack.

You'd make more money.

You could have these interesting things.

And they'd say, well, sure, I'd love that.

But I've committed to stick around at my current place until such and such a time.

And I want to do right by my editor.

I would say, well, just fuel up your getaway car.

You don't have to use it.

Just create an account.

Don't tell anybody about it.

Try out the editor, you know, play around with it, get comfortable with it.

And very often in that time, you know, I'd get a call three days later.

You'll never guess what happened.

There's definitely people who maintain free substacks while they are at the mainstream.

I think some places have started to take a dimmer view of that.