Are You a Sell Out?

The Perpetuation of the ‘Starving Writer’ Stereotype. 

I am fed up of creative people driving themselves broke with the idea that doing business equates to ‘selling out’.

If you are a professional artist, writer, or musician, it means you make money by doing those things.

That means that every great artist - in the broadest context - who ever inspired YOU to become an artist (unless it was your Aunt Doris or something) was a ‘sell out’.

Given that all great artists are sell outs, would you rather they had been as moral as you and kept their art just for themselves, so that it never troubled your little world or inspired you to be like them?

Just a second, though… if they had done that, wouldn’t it make them a narcissist? Wouldn’t they be selfish? Isn’t it weird and vain and a little bit creepy to keep your talents only for your own amusement?

What’s the alternative? You share your talents. People value them. They add value to their lives and homes and dreams. They pay you for that added value. You earn money so that instead of just painting the tree in your garden, you can travel the world and paint more wonderful things for the enjoyment of others, for centuries to come.

If you do that, you’re a professional. When you are a professional, the people who are too scared to be called a ‘sell out’ will call YOU a sell out, as they paint the tree outside their window over and over and over again. They will call you a sell out as they put their own work all over their own walls, for their own enjoyment.

But, wait. You don’t do that. You put your stuff up online and give it away for free, right? You’re not a sell out, right? Bullshit. You do it for an audience. You do it for popularity. You do it for SOCIAL CAPITAL. You sell for the currency of views and praise. You are a sell out.

If you’re going to be a sell out anyway, you may as well drop the attitude and be a professional. If you’re going to be a sell out anyway, you may as well drop the narcissism and be generous.

The same goes for social media, and online business.

You hang out on social media all day long and call those people who have something to sell a sell out or a scammer because they charge for their products or services?

Great. Do that. But don’t EVER complain about the economy, because YOU create the crap in the economy when you deny people the right to earn a living.

You create the homelessness and the malnutrition and the lack of confidence every time you tell someone that they have no right to be rewarded for their hard work because everyone owes you something for free. Nobody owes you a thing. You’re on a free network. You have a world of free at your fingertips. Allow people to feed themselves and clothe themselves and buy homes, and feed their kids.

If you really have to have free stuff all the time, here’s some free stuff. There’s an upsell. If you’re not scared of spending money, you can buy it. If you’re not scared of being a sell out, you can sell it. If you’re just out for all the free you can handle, just grab this free stuff, but do yourself a favour and apply it. Use it in whatever you are doing, so that you can graduate from a troll to a professional. Use it to live a bigger dream and get your work out to more people. No, you don’t have to tell anyone I shared it with you. No, you don’t have to pay me. No, I don’t want to hear from you if you think money is evil. Just help yourself to the 7 free videos and then help yourself to a less cynical future, and consider the consequences for others when you try to make them feel crappy about doing a good job and being paid for it.http://collectgold.magneticsponsoringonline.com/