>you are an "Anon" >a matrilineal Jew from NYC

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>you are an "Anon"
>a matrilineal Jew from NYC built a small empire around having people convince each other to write for free
>you are one of them
>you take pride in this fact
>you spend irreplaceable hours of your life writing posts for an ex-comedy anime website
>at fifty words a post, and twenty posts, that's a thousand words per day
>you typically write the equivalent of a two-page essay (with pictures!) for this website, daily
>you are paid in the applause of fellow dupes, kilobytes of temporary server space, and virtually nothing else
>you have been persuaded that your contributions are "valued"
>in fact, they are forgotten almost immediately; if they aren't, and they're reposted, it's "spam" and bannable
>you have been persuaded that this content farm has a "culture"
>in reality, the desires of the management trump the fancies of the 'users' every time and your "culture" carries the weight of flair on the walls of an Applebee's
>there are long-standing "cultural" norms against applying anything less than the maximum effort available to you, or doing anything that might diminish the flow of free labor
>you have been persuaded to work hard, for free, and disdain those who do not
>the punishment for failing to do this, or for violating any of the hundred other written or unwritten guidelines of this volunteer click sweatshop, is that you will be disallowed from providing further free work
>(but not forever, and you'll still be allowed to READ it, because otherwise you might find something else to do)
>your machismo, egged on by this "culture", does not allow you to leave
>you have been evicted from your fake home by a bunch of slope-browed, beady-eyed Nazi thugs, simply because they make more money and are easier to manage

Is posting, at long last, the thinking man's fetish?