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Episode: 4429
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Title: HPR4429: Handcrafting and Bartering discussion w. Elsbeth
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4429/hpr4429.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-26 00:37:59
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This is Hacker Public Radio episode 4,429 for Thursday the 24th of July 2025.
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Today's show is entitled Handcrafting and Bartering Discussion W.
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Ellsbeth, he is hosted by Ellsbeth and is about 43 minutes long.
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It carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is, Ellsbeth discusses how to make money as a crafter and how the barter and
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trade system might be better.
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Hi, this is Ellsbeth.
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I am going to talk to you a bit today about crocheting handcrafted items and my enjoyment
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of that as a hobby and dipping my toe into actually selling on sites online to maybe
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make a little money off of what I'm producing.
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I have obsessively watched TikTok videos of crafting and Facebook Reels and Instagram
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Reels just because I've been wanting to do something with my hands and my grandma taught
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me how to crochet like decades ago.
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I kind of don't want to admit how long ago but I was a baby when I started learning how
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to crochet and I would watch these videos and I'm like, why can't I do this?
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So I started getting more serious about crocheting as a hobby just to give my hands something
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to do because I found that it's really beneficial for me with having the ADHD part of ADHD
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when I'm on a call with someone or if I'm watching a show or something, I find that I process
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things better when I'm actually doing something with my hands.
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So I started just making granny squares.
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Granny squares are basically just a crocheted square in like varying different stitches.
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They ultimately wind up just being a square and often people will make quilts out of
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them so they'll make a bunch of squares and then connect them all together.
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So I started just making granny squares and then I got to thinking I've already made
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three sets total.
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One of them's in my hair.
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I will find something and this is something that I never thought that I could do.
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I don't know why.
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But I was sitting there going, why can't I?
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I can do little like no face videos of me crocheting and throw them on TikTok and I have
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a link to my Etsy page.
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That's how a lot of people get their business for handicrafts like this.
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This is a granny square.
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So it's basically it starts out with just a small little square where there's only four
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quarters and this one does have holes in it but you can make them so that they aren't
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fully.
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This is more for a market bag originally to like I've got groceries you know vegetables
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and stuff like that.
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But this particular one I just kept going until it was the size of the market bag that
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I wanted folded it into a diagonal and then folded up the quarters and stitched it together
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so it became a bag.
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A granny square is typically more like maybe 11 rows where you start with the center,
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but they call like a magic circle and then you stitch around you do three double crochets.
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That's kind of complicated to explain just while talking but you do three double crochets
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and then you do three single crochets and then do a double crochet into the corner.
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It makes a corner so it becomes a little square so it's actually pretty cool.
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In the old days and we're talking like way back in the day a granny square could make
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a pretty quick warm quilt.
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So you would stitch them together, not in crochet but I have quilted a quilt before with
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a sewing machine.
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So I'm kind of multi buried task and whatnot as far as candy crafts I can't get.
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I have been sewing since I was a little girl when I was in like fourth or fifth grade.
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I got kind of obsessed with home economics which was hot back then and I really enjoyed
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the sewing aspect of it of a creating a garment and whatnot.
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It kind of took a back seat as far as a craft was concerned for quite some time mostly
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because I was you know as a teenager I was traveling the world and then when I became
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an adult my kids is step grandma and her husband which was their grandpa owned a auto
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upholstery trim shop and she taught all of us how to sew from a professional standpoint
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how to make my own patterns and my daughter really took off on that but we can make our
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own patterns we can make the dress mannequins for individual.
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We also know how to do like the auto upholstery like stitching that on and stuff like that
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but that takes a little more than just sewing you have to have somebody that knows how to
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create the patterns from the actual automobile itself like whether it be you know redoing
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a steering wheel or the cushions on the seat so on and so forth and I wound up being more
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interested in the sewing than the actual piece in it together part.
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So she was pretty amazing at teaching us how to sew and why but it was hands on I would
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have never learned if I had gone to some sort of class because I'm a very hands on learner.
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So since then I've made my own clothes I've made clothes for other people I've made quilts
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and baby blankets and stuff like that once you know how to sew you can pretty much make
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anything a lot of the reasons that I did sew was because I wanted something that I couldn't
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get in a store and I could get the material at a price that wasn't much different than
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buying it at a store that being said.
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Sewing is expensive is not cheap and making clothes for yourself or other people unless
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you just shop around and buy the deals before you have the plan for the pattern and have
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the stock already in hand it's not really economical it is one of the reasons that clothing
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stores are clothing places like Walmart where they have clothes and target where they have
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clothes which is cheaper here in the US is usually the cheapest way to get clothes if you're
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not going to the thrift store they're mass turning out the same product so they can afford
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to charge less for the product at the risk of offending people the fact that most of it
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is manufactured in countries that are paid peanuts for the work that they do.
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The reality is is the fashion industry regardless of what spectrum of price it is on is a
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blight on society.
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There's other people that have stood up and said things about it there are some amazing
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designers that they thrive on the fact that they try to be ethically sourced does that
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always happen I don't know but yeah that's not my expertise I prefer to just enjoy the
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process of creating if you are in this for instant gratification you have to learn the
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process whether it be how to thread and maintain a sewing machine and manage when you have
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threads break or learning the different stitches and how to put them together and make it cohesive
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you have to be able to count I know that sounds kind of silly that you have to be able to
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count because you have to know how to measure things you have to know and I'm talking
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basic counting I'm not talking like you know abstract mathematics or anything like that.
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When it comes to crocheting most patterns you have to have an exact count so there's
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going to be an exact amount of stitches that goes around this circle headband or hair tie
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and you have to have the exact same stitch unless the stitch is a pattern stitch where
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you're switching up so that requires like the number one thing you would need is enough patience
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but once you learn the stitches and once you know how many stitches that you need something like
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this is super fast a ponytail holder like the elastic ponytail holder that I crocheted around
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and every single stitch is a in the US I think it's called a double crochet the US and the UK
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have different terminologies for their stitches but it's the same stitch so it's a double crochet
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or a triple crochet depending on where you're at and that's all it is like 99.9 percent of this
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hair tie being crocheted to make a cute little purple roughly type headband is double crochets
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as long as you know the stitches and you know how to count how much you need around this
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and I'm gonna be honest I haven't counted these because this particular type of stitching is super
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easy I've made three sets of these and three quarters of another one of the first of a set
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I probably spent about two and a half hours max a pair of these will sell for about five dollars
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plus shipping because they're handmade and they're good quality made too it depends on what the yarn
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and what the quality of the yarn is I'm going to be honest these ones here are relatively cheap
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cost but they'll last for a very long time but the big thing that most creators regardless of
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whether they're crocheting or whether they're making quilts or whatever you know anything on
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Etsy most creators will under price their stuff and then you'll have people that over
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well I don't even want to say they over price it they price for the amount of time it takes them to
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make it so when I say that this will sell for five dollars between the cost of my time so it's
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about ten minutes well this type was my first one and it took me about twenty minutes because I
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just had to get used to it but I turned the rest out in about ten minutes so this would be about
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ten minutes now that I'm used to it to make two so the total material for two of these is probably
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about a dollar and a half that's being on the generous side because it depends on what the
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material is and most people don't want different prices per material that being said if I had my
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more expensive yarn I would charge more but for these my profit margin is about four dollars for
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this so ten minutes that takes ten minutes I make a profit of four dollars there's six ten
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minutes in an hour so four times six that's twenty four dollars an hour that would be my profit
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for an hour but I would have to make six sets in an hour unfortunately in crocheting and in the
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handicraft world you can't charge per hour people don't appreciate that they want to lump some
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that's going to go into and like even even if it took me 50 hours to do a quilt if I charged
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three hundred dollars for that quilt like you know even just a twin or full size quilt a decent
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size quilt people don't want to spend the amount of money that it would cost for both the materials
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and the time and effort most people that do handicrafts are crafting at a loss or doing small
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things like this that actually create some sort of profit and anywhere you go any these sort of
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handicraft site will you'll find you you'll see that's what happens if there wouldn't be sites
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like Etsy or eBay or even the handicrafts on Amazon there wouldn't be sites like that if people
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weren't able to make a living off of it now anymore to be able to get the attention because of the
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market saturation that can happen you really have to have social media and be showing what your
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products are not so much with products but I have done social media stuff when I was doing health
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and fitness training and I was a yoga instructor I would do videos of myself doing workouts that
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were tangible for people that were struggling to manage their weight because of health and physical
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challenges so I would do videos and show people how they can do it without hurting themselves
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and how to build their balance and what not to be able to build up to being able to do more
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active things even just walking I think the people that can actually be engaging on their social
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media are the ones that will actually get more success now that's not to say that you can't create
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an Etsy store by yourself without having any social media and people see the quality of it and
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the value of it and are successful but those people usually film videos and have some sort of
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advertising in their stores that shows what the value of their product is I think I just think
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social media actually makes it easier it is actually probably the only thing that would compete with
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corporate items you know corporate stores like big box stores like Walmart and Target and
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any store like that where you can get cheaper products having social media shows people what it's
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like to you know back back in the day when I was grown up used to be able to like go buy a road stand
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and pick up some fruits and veg during seasons and people would you know would often have handy
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crafts and stuff there you just had to happen across them to be able to find them this is basically
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the digital equivalent of that I think that people are seeking to to transition more away from corporate
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purchases as a whole especially our young folk they're starting to look at the value of buying
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each other's skills and talents you know or purchasing from skills and talents rather than just
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going to a store and buying it you know conventions you know sci-fi fantasy conventions and stuff
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like that it's huge on the whole dealer's room is basically as far as I know every sci-fi fantasy
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convention that I've ever been to has had a dealer's room where people can sell their handy
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crafts and whatnot or sci-fi fantasy like when I was looking at the convention my daughter went
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to recently the dealers room there were people that had 3d printed items absolutely it could be
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anything it could be making buttons with you know geeky phrases and whatnot there's a whole variety
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I make things that you would find in a bookstore in real life for second life so it's basically
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the same concept as creating what I would like to see in a bookstore and what others might see in
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a bookstore and including books we do it the legal way so it's all public domain but
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that book create you know it had to have a mesh and it had to be something that people would
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actually want to look at and see I have science figurines like I don't know I have a hedgehog that
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has science facts about hedgehogs and I have elephants and whatnot and it gives people
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something tangible and by tangible I mean something physically that you can purchase in
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second life that you can interact with and learn something from and you can display it so
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that other people that come by can see what you have and it becomes almost like a collectible if
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you will kind of like Funko Pop I think that the trade and barter system is absolutely something
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that our society needs to go back to because people find value in creating something and even if
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they're like AI assisted or robot assisted creations people are going to want to have some sort
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of bartering and trade they're going to want to have some element of ownership to
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sharing their interests whether it be you know recently I was looking at the AI pets where you
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know I have this little robot dog that can interact with you and whatnot that that's the same
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concept as people want to have something that evokes some sort of happy emotion or happy memory
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I would be absolutely thrilled to trade and create a barter system if I were to make you know
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let's say somebody wanted to have a whole specialty made designed hair tie thing for their wedding
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okay I'm using that as an example because I could do a barter system with them let's say they
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happen to be somebody that was more talented than I am at sewing I could trade them an item
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that I wanted or needed for the product that I have created money has never been the primary
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focus of the barter and trade system the barter and trade system was about you have something that
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I can use or want and I have something that you can use or want and we don't need money to trade
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I think that that is very much the way it probably was in the past you know because I don't have
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any like specific thoughts off the top of my head that I examples that I can can refer to other
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the Bible because they do talk about trading and what not in the Bible and the in fact
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going to be perfectly honest that if you read the translation the right way there is no need for
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money money is all about someone else controlling your life that's a very dumb down simplified way
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of putting it so I'm not saying that we can like the there's an addiction to instant gratification
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in our society and that is highly revolved around money the more money you have the more you
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can get what you want with the handicraft system you're not getting money I have experienced
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healthy buttering systems and then the prejudicial and most people don't like that word but it's
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a matter of fact if when I was living in West Africa now understand that this is back in the late
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89 through the early 90s so through 93 the butter system was mandatory there now if you wanted
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to go the market and pick up some rice you had to go in with the knowledge of what rice was
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actually worked if you didn't know you were going to get ripped off especially someone like me who
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didn't quite look like the people that were in the market so they would see this you know white
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teenage girl come in speaking you know pretty broken French early on trying to make a deal
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having been taught that you aren't supposed to accept the first price I'm going to say there's
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a catch 22 you can get screwed over with the barter and trade system but there's also an immensely
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beautiful social interaction that comes with it as well one of the things that I got out of it
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that could have been negative was that because I was taught not to take the first deal it created
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a dialogue between myself and the people that were at the market where they go oh she's been taught
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she knows that that's not the price that it's worth or that's too much or you know we're just
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trying to get one over on her and you know that that can happen you know but I think it's a matter of
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knowing your audience always you know do you can you understand how to communicate with the
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individual that you're wanting to trade with you know when I'm talking about the more modern
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version of doing it on Etsy and which is a monetary thing but even if there was a barter system
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on Etsy I would have to know what my item is worth and what the item that I'm trying to get is worth
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and it comes down to just communicating you know if I say for instance I've got this pair of head
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bands and I'm selling them for five dollars in a barter and trade system because I am making a
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profit off of this they could say well what about three dollars no no I can't get rid of them from
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three dollars that that's not going to be worth it to me okay how about three fifty well okay I
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can come down to four seventy five I'll give you twenty five cents off and they're like okay okay
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they're they're they're realizing that they have a little wiggle room that they're they're making a
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profit well I really really just want it for three seventy five like that's that's the highest
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I can go and I'm like well that that doesn't give me a whole lot to work with here you know I
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know what my item is worth and I know what time I put into it okay okay okay I'll come up to four
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dollars okay tell you what I'll give you a deal I'll give it to you for four fifty and it's sold
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and then they have the option to walk away or accept it now it's the same thing whether you're
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using money or whether you're using drop of cakes this is a nice box of the drop of cakes here I'll
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trade you drop of cakes are these ridiculously good tea cakes that have well different different
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different kind of jellies inside of them like kind of a the original I think has yeah the original
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has orange but I did recently just get get some raspberry ones which I'm really looking forward to
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but they're they're like a tea cake that you you it's a little snack to have with your tea or
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coffee and they're from the UK and I have a hard time getting here in the US so I'm very grateful for
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mine but you know if I want to trade a box of drop of cakes for you know a set of two hand
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crocheted hair ties what's the worth of the package of drop of cakes and what's the worth
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of the time and energy I put into this so theoretically I could say well maybe I could do
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a set for one small pack I could trade that but this might be worth more than this so maybe I
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would have to if I wanted this pack of two drop of cakes I might have to do two sets and they could
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say well do I want to or do I just want the one yeah it's all about what the value is and it could
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be I do a drop of cake and say you know type of coffee or something I you trying to come up with
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something off the top of my head but you know value can come in different quantities even in a
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barter system and trade system I'm sorry I keep out really hard on that so most people that do
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like donation wear that would be more akin to barter and trade you see the value of what I have
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so you're going to donate for using it but unfortunately the open source system is basically
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kind of like I'm putting all my work and effort in for no recompense so I'm not getting
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appreciated for my value now if you were getting something in return like say I am getting
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the equivalent to my rent paid for a the use of this you know software then it becomes a more
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reasonable value because of the time and effort put into the actual coding of it so I don't feel
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personally this is why I'm not well I can very much appreciate open source I don't know that it
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is actually the best use of ethical coding I understand why they want things open source I get it
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you put how many hours into developing some form of software how many months how many years to
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develop a quality product and somebody could donate you can put a donate button they might donate
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but usually people aren't so where is your value then you have to really really be passionate about
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a project to just give it away when it comes to open source if you are getting paid to develop
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code your code becomes proprietary towards the company that's paying you you have to significantly
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change it enough so that it does not represent that proprietary code for it to actually be open so
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I mean get have is a repository of code that you can go to and you know some of it can be private
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but a lot of it's public so you can just go in and check that code and see if that code actually
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works for the project then you can just copy and paste it into your code and make the modifications
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you need to create what you want I guess I'm having a hard time
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viewing it as something that is actually worth one's time and effort unless it's just unless you're
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just super high for fixated and are willing to give up your time and energy for it whereas with
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me it's about bandwidth I get something tangible out of crocheting these items because it helps my
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brain and instead of courting a bunch of items that I've made that I'm going to offer them up for
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sale to those that might actually want to use them I guess I can understand that if you have a
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hobby and your hobby is coding then you might want to have some of that code be something that you
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are willing to just share with those that might actually you know make their life easier and I can
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see how new new programmers might actually benefit from it but I would really have to be something
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that you are really passionate about to just give away I think I understand that someone might
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actually want to share what they created but I'm not certain that I completely understand why they
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would share something that they created for no recompense I could see how if I can see how if
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somebody was like just wanting to put themselves out there and actually that that actually makes
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perfect sense is that you would potentially put stuff out there in code to have it be seen to
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show what you can do like a portfolio like an artist portfolio but I think ultimately it's kind
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of like a free gift or a sample in a food market and it's a really really expensive free gift
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time wise so you have to really love what you're doing to be able to do it and I can
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assure you most programmers aren't passionate enough about they're more concerned about the paycheck
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I mean okay so if you were to look at like scripting like in second life you can do
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something similar in the sense that you write a script you don't charge a whole lot for it
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because it's something that a lot of people would be interested in and over time a lot of people
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or purchase you'll eventually more than make up for the time that you put into creating that script
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but it's not full on coding and I'm not certain that I could process that fully as
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from a software standpoint other than just freelancing and I think that's what freelancing
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is about is having the freedom to be able to write what you want I think bug bounding is an
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excellent way to get your code out there and get something some sort of recompense for it
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I think that's actually pretty pretty awesome to be honest I think that there's a little bit of
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you really have to know that you're on a place because you can't guarantee that the person is
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going to pay out even if they're offering it escrow when you put when you go to buy a house you put
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your deposit in escrow because there are potential things that would keep the house from going through
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so you will get your money back if you're not able to buy the house for a justifiable reason
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in this sense if there is an escrow for the bounty where the person will get paid out if they're
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able to find the bug then then I think that that's a great idea I think that it is an interesting
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way for somebody who likes code I think a bug bounty would be very fascinating as somebody who
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likes to find problems you know issues so somebody that likes the hunt I think it's a great idea
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underget her welcome to get coin we help thousands of people grow their open source ecosystems
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and distribute millions of funding now we want to help you and your community decide how to fund
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your shared needs I think a lot of it is you just have to first off there's the whole get coin
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bit coin correlation but if you go to get hub there is a get coin area in there
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developers have always been the heart of the get coin ecosystem ever since our
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beginning funding open source software we welcome contributions to our projects and would love
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to support your project so it's basically a way of kind of getting some dot you know getting some
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credit like monetary credit but you have to specifically be working on something that someone else
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wants so I mean I see that there is potentially a benefit to it but there's also the it's only
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there's only so many resources to go around because it's based on who donates to it hold on I want
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to do a quick search here okay so that takes you back to the bug bounty thing so maybe okay here
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we go is it possible to make a living through bug bounty programs the best bug hunters make more
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money on bounties than they could earn through full-time employment if you have an aptitude and
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tenacity develop your skills so that you can become one of the best so basically you have to find
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the bug and provide the solution I don't think that's a pretty decent salary for I mean low end
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60,000 a year if that's your full-time thing is finding bugs and offering solutions I think it
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has a lot to do with the whole trying seeing the world kind of shift away from the almighty dollar
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when you see countries currency being devalued then it becomes in a digital world it becomes a little
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more intriguing to possibly consider a digital currency but ultimately it all boils down to the
|
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same thing it's it's literally just having a monetary value or something so it's either controlled
|
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by the people that run the Bitcoin or the Ethereum or Stellarium or you know whatever or it's the
|
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countries that are basing it off the gold standard which isn't even really valid anymore so
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I absolutely believe that without money as a world culture and society we would be far better off
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but then it would come down to the social credit system to some degree because people are going
|
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to control it to some some way shape or form you know until we can completely take humans out
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of the equation of monetary value or value of effort creativity whatever we're going to be stuck in
|
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that same rabbit hole back when Bitcoin was Bitcoin mining was becoming a thing I had I don't
|
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even know honestly don't even remember how much I had but I had enough that it would have been
|
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worth something today and at the time I'm like oh it never the Bitcoin never really developed into
|
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anything you know tangible for me to even bother being concerned about whether that hard drive
|
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with that information disappeared and by the time I realized that it was a tangible thing I'm
|
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like oh where's that hard drive because I used to keep all my hard drives and I was several moves
|
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away from that point in time when I decided that that hard drive just wasn't any value and
|
||||
it's in a landfill somewhere so someone somewhere if they're smart enough and know how to
|
||||
figure out where it is would find a hard drive somewhere that had some value to it I'm not certain
|
||||
how much today but I imagine it was something worthwhile so but I guess I just other than just
|
||||
getting my basic necessities and living life in a way that is comfortable without being
|
||||
excessive I just don't hold too much hard tack to money other than it getting me the life that I
|
||||
need and I'm not talking like you know the one percent or even the not even really middle class
|
||||
really you know just just comfortable I'd like to have some land had to used to be much better
|
||||
than what it is now I understand that there is a level of they have to have some sort of overhead
|
||||
and cost themselves but they have also become a little bit greedy Etsy has become too commercialized
|
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they've kind of lost focus how Etsy as a company has come to be to try and cover basically to
|
||||
cover their assets they have become less in favor of the creator and more in favor of the seller
|
||||
and I do understand that to some degree but the buyer can very easily say I didn't receive this
|
||||
product even though they have and even if you have the documentation that it just throws you into a
|
||||
whole loop of having to verify and produce documentation and if you're running even a side
|
||||
business like this little misman I don't think so I will be out there in a moment she's protesting
|
||||
the whole commercialization of Etsy ultimately I think that you have to have some business sense
|
||||
and just some ethical sense to be able to successfully market your skill set and that that takes time
|
||||
I am creating an Etsy shop to list my hair ties that I crochet but I had to be unique with the name
|
||||
on it because I also want to sell digital art as well so I had to come up with I came up with a name
|
||||
that actually is available so I'm calling it Elizabeth's ephemera I love the word ephemera and it
|
||||
doesn't tie me down to just crocheting they make you put an item in first so I have to do something I
|
||||
have to take a picture of the products and list it and also requires me actually having some sort of
|
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decent lighting and backdrop I have to get a light box for this type of stuff if I'm successful
|
||||
definitely have to use a little more detailed better quality pictures and whatnot
|
||||
for now I am content with just taking a relatively decent picture and posting it
|
||||
that I should probably take and put all three of them now I have to add the photos
|
||||
this is a process you got to take the pictures then you've got to send it to yourself
|
||||
I take the pictures on my phone and then I email it to myself so that I can put it on the computer
|
||||
because it's a whole lot easier that way okay so let's go let's call this lavender sparkle
|
||||
we have to put it in a description hand-priced hair tie in lavender sparkle yarn slash bowl
|
||||
durable and ready to where I'm going to put this is for five dollars oh see that's
|
||||
something that I didn't factor in they take 93 cents as he takes 93 cents out of the five dollars
|
||||
yeah that's one of the reasons why I have an issue with them and they used to be they used to
|
||||
take less fees but they've increased it oh wow I need to find out how much these way I have a
|
||||
food scale somewhere if I can find it how where did it go I am I'm very curious now how much
|
||||
mommy's you can chill out for a second I am very curious how much they lay though point
|
||||
for point four ounces so I can just do one ounce so that it's very actually that's really good
|
||||
because it's going to cost next to nothing and shipping maybe shipping cost interesting they're
|
||||
estimating the shipping might be about four point fourteen dollars okay I have my first listing
|
||||
yeah a pair for five dollars so you pick the category that's under this is going to be under arts
|
||||
and collectibles slash fiber art slash crochet and then you have to choose whether it's a physical
|
||||
or digital item and then who made it so it's either I did a member of my shop another company or
|
||||
person so I did it's a finished product not a supplier tool it is currently made in the last five
|
||||
years it's made from scratch you have to choose whether it's an assemble from purchase parts
|
||||
an item that my shop alters a curated set of purchase goods or natural materials this is a hand
|
||||
I use tan held or guided tools not computerized or AI the title is crochet hair tie
|
||||
crunchy in light purple at a picture and I'm also showing the way it looks
|
||||
but in a different color let's see description and crocheted hair tie slash scrunchy and in
|
||||
the light purple acrylic yarn it's slash wool ready to wear lasting tones onto the one
|
||||
primary color purple with I'm going to put those in crochet hair
|
||||
hair tie scrunchy this is the tags so people can search it and find this um
|
||||
drafted uh it's another word for a hair time off that's good enough materials
|
||||
real look yarn and about going to select a profile item weight is 0.5 ounces
|
||||
this is the length with the height returned an exchange policy I'm going to do a manual renewal
|
||||
and I'm not going to do a automatic renewal because I'm not big enough yet and that's it it's listed
|
||||
you just go on to the next and keep listing the new ones I have three finished products
|
||||
by the way okay to set up the shop you have to do a whole biometric screening and prove your
|
||||
ID and and all that stuff to verify that you are actually who do you say you are so that
|
||||
you're not just using someone else's bank account or something like that to pay for the startup
|
||||
cost which is it's a nominal $29 fee you have a way of getting that money back after six months
|
||||
and they do give you some advertising credits as well for it so I mean it's more than that they
|
||||
have some benefits to you spending that money up front it's basically for the maintenance and
|
||||
getting everything set up on your platform and it is optional but it it gives you it charges you
|
||||
$10 a month if you don't choose that option so I'm saving money in the long run thank you for
|
||||
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|
||||
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