Sally Strange on Nostr: for a short while a few years ago, I made a few (and I do mean a few) extra bucks by ...

for a short while a few years ago, I made a few (and I do mean a few) extra bucks by doing what mostly AI does now: writing short articles for clickbait magazines, advertising, and company websites.

For example, one article I wrote was a short professional bio about a rich Indian guy. How did he make his money? By digitizing all of America's phone books and selling the information to companies that wanted a list of people and/or companies.

A perfect example of how "capitalist brilliance" mostly consists of being the first person to put a toll gate up around a public resource.