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> They better! The median author probably makes less than $100 in their career as a writer.

This is in agreement, not to contradict you, to be clear: The median author form whom writing is their primary income in the UK earns well below minimum wage from their writing, and the vast majority of writers do not have it as their primary income.

At the same time, as I've expanded on elsewhere in this thread, the household income of that same group is above the UK median.



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