I love the idea of a creative credit. It’s brilliant way to get more minds sharing their slice of strangeness. Which we need more of- let’s start a book tok campaign! (Not)
This is brilliant. Hands down I’m not taking kindly to being laughed at by one more person, especially a politician and their cronies. I would venture to say that my time working and away from my special needs child is worth more than minimum wage to create an escape for someone. To entertain them and make them forget their life and problems is more valuable than people are willing to admit and it’s time that ends.
We can talk about my Discuss escapades in High School and University another time.
As far as the taxes go I'm not much of an accountant so I couldn't say whether I think it's a Good or Great idea. I'm sure it would help me but I know so little about how to do taxes I can't imagine how it would be implemented.
I did always think it would be good for self employed people to have a service - a payment processor, bank, etc. - that would automatically take out taxes from all payments made to a self employed person so that they wouldn't have to figure it out later and try to catch up. Playing catch up is the worst. Ask me how I know! Not being an accountant though I wouldn't attempt to create a business like that for self employed people because I would need an accountant to help me understand and wrap my mind around the best way to implement it.
Taxes suck. I think we should do a flat tax for everyone and a national sales tax. That would make everyone feel like taxes were fair for the poor and the rich. If you "spend" more money you spend more of it on taxes. But if you don't spend more money, everyone pays the same percentage on their income. You could adjust the Sales tax on different items to equal what you would have recieved under the old system and then just tweak the Sales Tax. You keep a flat income tax to balance out recession periods where people stop spending money. Hell, Texas doesn't even have an income tax. They make all their money from sales tax.
Who was the politician? Inquiring minds need to know.
This reminds me of that story you told about Mark Richard. How he went to write for some popular TV show so he could make enough money to write the stuff he actually wanted to write.
I think it’s an excellent proposal. However, I feel all eyes and ears seemed tuned into AI at the moment. Which is probably the opposite of a creative credit. Open AI (Chat GPT) is a non-profit and uses that status to get away with avoiding most if not all taxes. At least they started out that way. The creative credit is going to billion dollar corporations with skin in the AI game, like Nvidia, and others looking to get in the AI game like Elon Musk.
Hell yeah! Your proposal wails! We already do so much free work as artists. Whether you’re making a living off it or trying to get something going. Our time is deeply undervalued. And then to have some assbags undermine your ideas when they freakin asked you for them. Ugh. Consider me pissed off.
Man Chuck I get fucked on taxes so much almost every year that it isn't a joke. I would love to be able to deduct all the time I spend honing my craft. Uncle Sam doesn't care how many hours I spend making myself better or revising my latest essay or short story. If anything at least I enjoyed all the effort. All the drives to Portland. All the hours of sleep I missed. Thanks for trying.
How many of the greatest artists and innovators lived and died in fields and factories simply because they got a shit roll of the dice?
Being that gargantuan industries are dependent on artists, one would think that we should clear a path for creatives worth their salt.
However, with the democratization of everything by the internet, that path is a lot clearer. The only gatekeeper to selling your work on the internet is you.
And I wish that writing were a difficult physical task, like discus, rather than screen staring. I'd be able to do it for much longer. I swear Im going to build that massive wall mounted keyboard that requires boxing gloves that Kurt Vonnegut talked about in Pity the Reader. Its gotta be outdoors though.
Amen. So many good points but my favorite is the expectation to work for free from people who already have the money. People already in the catbird seat have a funny way of dictating what the sparrows should be doing.
Unfortunately I live in a state that has become the model for runaway gerrymandering, so despite living in an “artistic” community, my district is represented by a hardliner who owns a string of fast food franchises and wants everything to ‘go back to the way it was.’ But I’ve been itching to call this person out on camera, and I’ll do my best to use your proposal to galvanize the many hardworking creatives I know to back me up on this. I think it’s a great idea. You think you’d ever consider running for office?
I love the idea of a creative credit. It’s brilliant way to get more minds sharing their slice of strangeness. Which we need more of- let’s start a book tok campaign! (Not)
Brilliant proposal! I love it! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Brings a whole new meaning to the colloquialism, “if I had a nickel for every time I…”
This is brilliant. Hands down I’m not taking kindly to being laughed at by one more person, especially a politician and their cronies. I would venture to say that my time working and away from my special needs child is worth more than minimum wage to create an escape for someone. To entertain them and make them forget their life and problems is more valuable than people are willing to admit and it’s time that ends.
You didn't actually throw the discuss did you?
We can talk about my Discuss escapades in High School and University another time.
As far as the taxes go I'm not much of an accountant so I couldn't say whether I think it's a Good or Great idea. I'm sure it would help me but I know so little about how to do taxes I can't imagine how it would be implemented.
I did always think it would be good for self employed people to have a service - a payment processor, bank, etc. - that would automatically take out taxes from all payments made to a self employed person so that they wouldn't have to figure it out later and try to catch up. Playing catch up is the worst. Ask me how I know! Not being an accountant though I wouldn't attempt to create a business like that for self employed people because I would need an accountant to help me understand and wrap my mind around the best way to implement it.
Taxes suck. I think we should do a flat tax for everyone and a national sales tax. That would make everyone feel like taxes were fair for the poor and the rich. If you "spend" more money you spend more of it on taxes. But if you don't spend more money, everyone pays the same percentage on their income. You could adjust the Sales tax on different items to equal what you would have recieved under the old system and then just tweak the Sales Tax. You keep a flat income tax to balance out recession periods where people stop spending money. Hell, Texas doesn't even have an income tax. They make all their money from sales tax.
Who was the politician? Inquiring minds need to know.
Thanks for sharing, Chuck.
This reminds me of that story you told about Mark Richard. How he went to write for some popular TV show so he could make enough money to write the stuff he actually wanted to write.
I just loved this essay. I always go cross-eyed and sleepy when I hear words like "taxes" and "politicians" and "money." I really need to fix that.
I think it’s an excellent proposal. However, I feel all eyes and ears seemed tuned into AI at the moment. Which is probably the opposite of a creative credit. Open AI (Chat GPT) is a non-profit and uses that status to get away with avoiding most if not all taxes. At least they started out that way. The creative credit is going to billion dollar corporations with skin in the AI game, like Nvidia, and others looking to get in the AI game like Elon Musk.
Hell yeah! Your proposal wails! We already do so much free work as artists. Whether you’re making a living off it or trying to get something going. Our time is deeply undervalued. And then to have some assbags undermine your ideas when they freakin asked you for them. Ugh. Consider me pissed off.
Man Chuck I get fucked on taxes so much almost every year that it isn't a joke. I would love to be able to deduct all the time I spend honing my craft. Uncle Sam doesn't care how many hours I spend making myself better or revising my latest essay or short story. If anything at least I enjoyed all the effort. All the drives to Portland. All the hours of sleep I missed. Thanks for trying.
Frankly, I’m against taxes.
How many of the greatest artists and innovators lived and died in fields and factories simply because they got a shit roll of the dice?
Being that gargantuan industries are dependent on artists, one would think that we should clear a path for creatives worth their salt.
However, with the democratization of everything by the internet, that path is a lot clearer. The only gatekeeper to selling your work on the internet is you.
And I wish that writing were a difficult physical task, like discus, rather than screen staring. I'd be able to do it for much longer. I swear Im going to build that massive wall mounted keyboard that requires boxing gloves that Kurt Vonnegut talked about in Pity the Reader. Its gotta be outdoors though.
Amen. So many good points but my favorite is the expectation to work for free from people who already have the money. People already in the catbird seat have a funny way of dictating what the sparrows should be doing.
Sex is so hard — no pun — to say not to. Yesterday was my first successful day of going home to write instead of cruising for cheerios at a fruitloop.
Unfortunately I live in a state that has become the model for runaway gerrymandering, so despite living in an “artistic” community, my district is represented by a hardliner who owns a string of fast food franchises and wants everything to ‘go back to the way it was.’ But I’ve been itching to call this person out on camera, and I’ll do my best to use your proposal to galvanize the many hardworking creatives I know to back me up on this. I think it’s a great idea. You think you’d ever consider running for office?