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of the fellows that she chooses, now it's not that much of a courage step for them to start it because they have the approval of what last psychiatrist would call an omniscient entity, somebody who is just allowed to approve things and tell you that you're okay on a psychological level.

And then like maybe of those fellows, some percent of them will have their blog posts be read and people will like them

And I don't know how much reinforcement it takes to get over the hypefire everyone has on no one will like my blog.

But maybe for some people, the amount of reinforcement they get there will work.

Like an interesting...

Interesting example would be all of the journalists who have switched to having sub stacks.

Many of them go well.

Would all of those journalists have become bloggers if there was no such thing as mainstream media?

I'm not sure.

But if you're Paul Krugman, like, you know people like your stuff.

And then when you quit the New York Times, you know you can just open a sub stack and start doing exactly what you were doing before.

So I don't know.

Maybe my answer is there should be mainstream media.

I think it might be a crazy outcome to make a lot of money as a blogger.

I don't know what percent of people who start a blog end up making enough that they can quit their day job.

I guess it's a lot worse than for startup founders.

I would not even have that as a goal.

That's right.

So much as like the Scott Aronson goal of, okay, you're still a professor, but now you're the professor whose views everybody knows and to his –

It has kind of a boost up in respect in your field and especially outside of your field.