In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'
No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.
What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.
I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.
For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.
