Friday, December 11, 2009

Shutting Down

I started my online adventures as many do - trying to make money online as a side hobby. It became more, though, because I couldn't find another way; I was and currently am a leech on two people (my parents). I end my online adventures in PTCs because I do not see the mutual benefit of such an endeavor involved. Either you are taking advantage of advertisers, or being taken advantage of by a PTC owner. I say taking advantage of advertisers, because the point behind it is "paid to click" - not paid to look. I used to want to be, as it were, "employed" by a PTC - paid for the job of looking at advertisements. Even though this does look like fair trade, the reason that it exists is a backwards approach. If nothing else, my reason for PTCing was that of taking advantage of PTC owners, and for that reason alone, there is already an inherent conflict of interests.

I am not opposed to making money online - I am opposed to non-mutual benefit. It could be also put as that I am for "win-win" or "no play" situations. This would be a "no play". If you're not getting anything from a deal, then you might as well be sacrificing your effort and time. Having read Atlas Shrugged, along with anti-statist theory from theorists such as confederalsocialist (fringeelements), and Stefan Molyneux, but especially epitomized in Atlas Shrugged, it is my desire to become self-sufficient, and opposed to that desire is non-mutual benefit, and that is why I am shutting down "Which PTC's Work?". This service of blogger.com is, itself, a free service. That is something, as I intend to keep this blog up for archival purposes, that I need to deal with. I have been incorporating this mindset as I find things coming along, and it is quite easy to spot places that I have been using for free and that are therefore non-mutual benefitting.

Since this blog has been dedicated to a leech-based direction - PTCs - it would make sense to simply delete it: it perpetuates the cycle of leeching that I am opposed to. However, it is not for me to be an archon, and the attention that this blog yields for blogger.com means money. But, that money goes to leeching activities.

Simply put, I am leeching off of blogger.com and will need to account for that, although, I recall how google works, in that it makes money from ads... I am undecided as to whether I will delete this blog. However, it is being shut down.

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