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Originally Posted by sbfootball_84
he said he got paid well from husng to write this book. its them that's releasing it free for marketing purposes.
i still wish this isn't freely available to the public. but idk how good a teacher/writer mers is, hopefully its overhyped. nothing against mers.
Yeah I'm aware that he was paid. Do you think he could've made more by setting up his own website and selling a thousand books for $250/copy? Why didn't he do that instead then?
I think saying that mersenneary's motivations are purely financial is a bit disingenuous.
I'm probably not intelligent enough to make my point as well as I'd like but it's a bit annoying when people suggest he was only/mostly financially motivated when writing this. I just view it as a guy trying to leave a mark and give something back and some people trying to make out he is bad for doing so just because it doesn't benefit them as much as the majority. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit or i don't know him at all, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case.
Also remember skates when he was contemplating his 20bb manual or whatever he called it and at one point he even said something to the effect of "i want to leave something behind for the 2p2 community". Granted skates wasn't paid at all but do you really think mers received any significant sum for this or was it just a bonus for doing something he already intended on doing?
He's doing something for himself in a sense and the majority will benefit, but a few people may lose out. Those people will in all likelihood not lose out and still be able to make several hundred thousand dollars a year, but that's a whole different matter. I don't agree with poker coaching either but that doesn't mean I'm going to stand in the way of someone trying to leave their mark and do something kind.
Maybe I've read it wrong though and mersenneary is a cold hearted bastard with an agenda, I'm open to that possibility.