It seems to me you're trying to have a very different conversation than the one alg volunteered for.
She's trying to convey some fiscal realism to aspiring writers. You're taking it as an opportunity to demand that she defend costs and practices from a side of the enterprise that she already said is outside her area of expertise.
It may well be that we're dumb old lumbering dinosaurs and your operation is one of the tiny mammals that will eat our eggs while we're "doing little or nothing to work efficiently." If that's the case, I expect we'll see evidence of it soon, as your operation, with its "positive attitude," quickly overtakes ours. Meanwhile, I think you're kind of off on the wrong foot with alg, who didn't set out to explain why Everything In New York Publishing Is Just Exactly Perfect. You know?
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She's trying to convey some fiscal realism to aspiring writers. You're taking it as an opportunity to demand that she defend costs and practices from a side of the enterprise that she already said is outside her area of expertise.
It may well be that we're dumb old lumbering dinosaurs and your operation is one of the tiny mammals that will eat our eggs while we're "doing little or nothing to work efficiently." If that's the case, I expect we'll see evidence of it soon, as your operation, with its "positive attitude," quickly overtakes ours. Meanwhile, I think you're kind of off on the wrong foot with