Marie Antoinette was the queen consort of Louis XVI of France and executed in the French Revolution. While there are serious doubts that she told the phrase "let them eat cake" when she was informed that the commoners have no bread, it's no doubt that she had no clue what is going on around her. She became an archetype of the nobles who waste a fortune while their people are in poverty. While she wasn't worse than anyone in the same circles, she still profited greatly from the politics that kept the average people in poverty and oppression. So while she might not deserved her head cut down, she definitely deserved the hate and despise of the public.
She came to my mind when I was writing the first draft for my July 15 "blogging my profit away" post. In the last week my average daily profit was above 1.5B. My income/active hour is over 500M and I won't stop until I increase it to 1B/hour. While I'm doing it, I'm blogging about making ISK and various things in and out of game. The draft of the post describing my method contained more and more "let them eat cake" ideas like "set 30 buy orders in all 5 hubs, 100M+ each" or "don't forget that due to margin trading you need cash for your buys to complete so make sure you have a few billions on every alt before you log out for the night" and "have more than one orcafleet owning hauler working for you on a daily schedule".
Are these make any sense to write down? I mean the purpose of my blog is not some Marie Antoinette bragging (where you talk casually about extraordinary things to express that these are totally everyday boring stuff for you, like "gosh, I must get my Lamborghinies washed down"). Not only because her behavior caused her some headache at the end, but because it's pointless. It's not like I can force anyone reading useless posts.
I want to show people that by trading they can get rich. But will I convince anyone if I display such wealth? If they believe that I got my money because of me being extraordinary (either as a genius or a no-life grinder) my blog has failed. I believe I'm not making anything extraordinary and anyone can do as I do. However the above comment is clearly Marie Antoinette-ish, because it's obvious that making 40B a month is huge in a game where most people (by definition) can't even get 0.5B to pay their subscription with a PLEX.
There are two possibilities. One is that I'm Marie Antoinette, just like the guy (no link found just rumors) who said "yeah I lost some titans to the Russians, but who doesn't?". This means that I'm filthy rich, my monthly and hourly income puts me among the very best. This case my business posts are generally useless and if I want to be useful, I have to post about much smaller things, like basic money management and "how to get your first 50M" posts.
The other is the community consist of two distinct groups, with one of them being much-much more successful than the other, and I'm an ordinary guy in the successful group. The best example is WoW raiding: the normal mode raids were easy and completing them gave no real bragging rights to anyone, despite only 5-10% of the playerbase did it. Completing it meant nothing more than you are not a faceroller in an ungemmed/unenchanted clownsuit. In this case it's completely normal and beneficial to post in the style that targets the elite, as the rest are the facerolling clowns and beyond hope anyway.
So please tell me: Is 10B+a month the normal thing that every decent player has (or had when he was building his supercap, can't be bothered since then)? Or is it something extraordinary and most good players are making 1-2B a month that is enough to pay for a few accounts and to replace a lost faction-fitted Tengu now and then, but supercaps are strictly alliance-level investments where lot of players work together to provide one ship to a chosen pilot? I'm fully aware that if the second option is the correct one, I'm already Marie Antoinette for not knowing, but the first step of fixing something is recognizing it.
Friday morning report: 61.6B (1+2 PLEX ahead, 1.1B spent on logi, 0.5 on Titan, 0.4 on Rorqual)
She came to my mind when I was writing the first draft for my July 15 "blogging my profit away" post. In the last week my average daily profit was above 1.5B. My income/active hour is over 500M and I won't stop until I increase it to 1B/hour. While I'm doing it, I'm blogging about making ISK and various things in and out of game. The draft of the post describing my method contained more and more "let them eat cake" ideas like "set 30 buy orders in all 5 hubs, 100M+ each" or "don't forget that due to margin trading you need cash for your buys to complete so make sure you have a few billions on every alt before you log out for the night" and "have more than one orcafleet owning hauler working for you on a daily schedule".
Are these make any sense to write down? I mean the purpose of my blog is not some Marie Antoinette bragging (where you talk casually about extraordinary things to express that these are totally everyday boring stuff for you, like "gosh, I must get my Lamborghinies washed down"). Not only because her behavior caused her some headache at the end, but because it's pointless. It's not like I can force anyone reading useless posts.
I want to show people that by trading they can get rich. But will I convince anyone if I display such wealth? If they believe that I got my money because of me being extraordinary (either as a genius or a no-life grinder) my blog has failed. I believe I'm not making anything extraordinary and anyone can do as I do. However the above comment is clearly Marie Antoinette-ish, because it's obvious that making 40B a month is huge in a game where most people (by definition) can't even get 0.5B to pay their subscription with a PLEX.
There are two possibilities. One is that I'm Marie Antoinette, just like the guy (no link found just rumors) who said "yeah I lost some titans to the Russians, but who doesn't?". This means that I'm filthy rich, my monthly and hourly income puts me among the very best. This case my business posts are generally useless and if I want to be useful, I have to post about much smaller things, like basic money management and "how to get your first 50M" posts.
The other is the community consist of two distinct groups, with one of them being much-much more successful than the other, and I'm an ordinary guy in the successful group. The best example is WoW raiding: the normal mode raids were easy and completing them gave no real bragging rights to anyone, despite only 5-10% of the playerbase did it. Completing it meant nothing more than you are not a faceroller in an ungemmed/unenchanted clownsuit. In this case it's completely normal and beneficial to post in the style that targets the elite, as the rest are the facerolling clowns and beyond hope anyway.
So please tell me: Is 10B+a month the normal thing that every decent player has (or had when he was building his supercap, can't be bothered since then)? Or is it something extraordinary and most good players are making 1-2B a month that is enough to pay for a few accounts and to replace a lost faction-fitted Tengu now and then, but supercaps are strictly alliance-level investments where lot of players work together to provide one ship to a chosen pilot? I'm fully aware that if the second option is the correct one, I'm already Marie Antoinette for not knowing, but the first step of fixing something is recognizing it.
Friday morning report: 61.6B (1+2 PLEX ahead, 1.1B spent on logi, 0.5 on Titan, 0.4 on Rorqual)
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