B. My writing is good enough to sometimes make the front page of HN. It still doesn't pay, not because I'm doing anything wrong, but because the world expects content for free.

Most YouTube channels, etc, also don't really support their creators. Plus you are de facto asking me to abandon something I've spent years getting good at in order to start over from scratch with something else. The subtext there is "Of course writing doesn't pay! It never will! Just quit!"

This piece (below) by me made the front page, got substantial upvotes and generated substantial conversation. It made not one thin dime.

https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-hand-li...

I've been on HN a decade. I've read and participated in numerous discussions pertinent to this problem space. A tldr is people don't approve of any means whatsoever to pay content creators.

Ads are evil.

Tip jars are "panhandling the internet."

Patreon is seen as "begging for charity" rather than a legitimate means to monetize your work in a world where people aggressively use ad blockers and bitch and moan about the evils of ads.

Selling something else as a product and writing related content -- aka content marketing -- is another form of evil ruining the internet.

Doing low-paid writing, such as product descriptions and content marketing pieces for hire, makes me part of the problem that is ruining the internet.

People on HN actively look for and promote means to get around pay walls.

There is zero means to monetize online content that doesn't get decried as evil, evil and more evil. Reflecting that back as "So, basically, you think writing should be done by slave labor" offends the high paid, high minded types that find it an affront that writers want a middle class life.

Meanwhile, they also bitch and moan about there not being enough good writing and utterly dismiss the idea that making it impossible to get adequately paid for writing has any bearing on how journalism etc is going to hell.

I'm exhausted and tired of saying the same things over and over and hearing the same tired argument that I'm just doing it wrong, I'm just too stupid to figure out the right way and some random internet stranger can fix my life with a paragraph or two of advice if I will just dutifully listen.

I already said I don't really want to rehash this. I still don't really want to rehash this. It's amazingly aggravating and pointless.

People at risk of homelessness are, in a nutshell, people with barriers to regular employment. This includes people who are twice exceptional and the LGBTQ crowd.

Ideally, we develop more resources for people who have trouble achieving conventional success as a means to lower their risk of homelessness. Waiting until after they are on the street to help them is the worst possible way to handle this. It's much harder to help people after their lives have fallen apart than to give them other options before it goes that far.

Years ago, I homeschooled my two twice exceptional sons. I was Director of Community Life for The TAG Project for a short time. I was a low level presenter at a gifted conference that year.

I have expertise in how you deal effectively with this stuff. But there's no effective means to put that information out there. I can't afford to do everything for free. It doesn't pay and the institutions we currently have are often part of the problem.