I've been wondering lately about the economics of writing since I find myself spending quite a lot of time writing open source software and writing about open source software. There seem to be two extreme positions on this subject:
o Ben Smith quotes the Substack author Heather Cox Richardson as saying, "if you start doing things for money, they stop being authentic."
o Or there is Samuel Johnson: "No man, but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."
A Chicago price theory question might be: Reconcile these two statements.
