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Independence. "You keep using that word."

"I do not think it means what you think it means," to quote Kevin Klein as Inigo Montoya in "The Princess Bride."

You created this straw man of "independence" and keep tossing the word around as if it had some special definition in the context of publishing. It doesn't. No one who gets paid to write for a commercial publication is genuinely independent; you're doing someone else's bidding in return for money. Even if you own the magazine you're still not 100% free; you have to produce content that will interest readers. You're hung up on something that's meaningless.

The unnamed writer who doesn't buy gear at accomodation price isn't more independent (whatever that means) than I am; he's just stupid for paying full price when he didn't have to. I'd even say that he's showing poor judgement - yet you think that poor judgement somehow makes him more "independent" and superior?

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