Ya know, lately on this here blog, I’ve been deep-diving into the lazy mindset, how to build  the mental framework of total relaxation and apply as little little effort as possible while yielding the biggest results in every aspect of your life: your career, your goals, your friends, your family, your love. 

 I promised a while ago though that I’d get back to the roots of what this blog was all about and that is making money online.

After all, you want to be lazy and get away with it and part of that is of course sitting on the couch while earning a decent income.
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Well, like a true procrastin8r I said “eventually” I’ll do it and I’m here today to tell you folks that “eventually” is here and I want to share one of my favorite online money-making methods.

The site is called Amazon mTurk and it’s one of the easiest and laziest ways to earn extra money in your pare time.

 Now if you’ve been following me for quite a bit, you’ll know I mentioned before how you can make money with mTurk. But the content  I provided previously was really just a thumbnail version of what the site has to offer and how to actually go about earning some moola on it, as part of a top procrastin8 list.

So today, I want to explore mTurk in a full review and analysis. We’ll get into how much money you can potentially earn as well as the methods I use to minimize effort and maximize results, getting the most out of the site with as little work as possible.

First of all, I want to make it clear that results may vary. I can’t promise you’ll make “x” amount of dollars in “such n’ such” hours. It really all depends on the tasks available, how much they’re paying, and how quickly (or slowly) you’re able to complete them.

mTurk is a great way to earn a bit of extra cash in your free time though. There’s no doubt about that.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s dive right into it.
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WTF is mTurk?

Nah. the Turks from Final Fantasy VII. mTurk is a crowdsourcing website, where companies (and educators) can hire workers to do tasks virtually, this includes data entry, transcription, and taking surveys.

It’s owned and operated by Amazon, which unlike a lot of these other “get-paid-to” sites, is a well established and trusted brand. Being the most profitable company in the world, Amazon ain’t going away any time soon.

That's actually a big deal when it comes to mTurk because I can’t tell you how many sites I’ve signed up for, poured hours into working and doing various tasks, only to never see that paycheck come because the company closes before I can make a cash out request. Or maybe they pay for a while, then one day just pull the ole Houdini and disappear.

Either way, you don’t have to really worry about that sort of shit with an Amazon branded company. I also feel a lot more comfortable sharing my personal information, including bank details, with such a brand, as opposed to some start-up company.

I mean, we all have shared our payment details with Amazon for that juicy Prime delivery anyway, amirite? If you’re going to be making money online, might as well make it from the company you’re going to spend it  at :D




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Where tf it available?

The Interwebs, duh!

No but seriously...

When I first started “turking”,  it was only available in the United States, India, and Canada, but they have since then added about a dozen different countries. Unfortunately, for my global readers out there, mTurk isn’t fully global. That, and it’s still English only.

There are several translation tasks available in foreign languages and some surveys that you’ll only qualify if you’re bilingual, but aside from that, everything else is completely in English. 

Now to me, that ain’t much of a big deal. It’s my Native (and only) language and I know to *most* of my readers they’re in the same boat. But I do know that a few of you are foreign looking for “global moneymaking”. MTurk isn’t that site. I’m just throwing that out there up front.

If, however, you happen to be in one of the available countries, and do in fact speak English fluently, then I’m throwing it right off the bat, I highly recommend this site.
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How much can you fucking earn?

Enough. You can earn enough.

Okay, but seriously I wouldn’t go into this site expecting to strike it rich quick. You’ll doing tasks that pay a few cents each, like maybe fifty cents or so. 

Now you may be thinking that’s not a whole lot, but lemme tell you something. The little bit of cents here and there turns into a profit, slowly but surely.

Earning about $.50 per “HIT” doesn’t sound like much but it does add up over time.

If you earn $1 a day from mTurk (about 2 HITs), that’s $30 a month. If you earn $10 a day (about 20ush HITs), that’s $300! For doing hardly anything at all in your spare time, you can earn quite a bit of a stash.

Personally, over the years of mTurking, I’ve made over $11,000. Not bad for a site I click around in my free time and never have to leave the couch while doing so.

It’s important to mention that while the direct deposit, if you look at your bank statement, comes from Amazon, it’s not Amazon paying you your money (or assigning the tasks for that matter). It’s the requesters.

Requesters ar ethe one that create task, and you, as a turker complete them.

It *usually* takes a few days before your task is approved and paid. Usually. Sometimes it can take up to a week before approval/payment. But as a procrastin8r myself, I cut ‘em some slack for putting things off.

There are certain “bad” requesters that reject your work and/or don’t pay, but we’ll get to how to avoid those cheap bastards in a sec.


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So...how exactly do you earn money?

You complete what’s called “HITs” (which is short for Human Intelligence Task).  Most of them are going to be surveys from Universities. Occasionally you’ll do something else like tagging a video for certain content or maybe providing audio recorded commentary of your first impressions of a website.

You know those “studies” you hear about in the news that tell how a certain percentage of Americans or (insert demographic here) believe (blank). Well, that’s where this data comes from. You’ll be participating in *those* surveys*.
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​What HITs are worth turking for?


Now I don’t recommend doing any of the tasks that pay less than $.25. Those are typically  the ones where people are cheaping out. Not worth doing. The amount of time it takes to pay ratio is simply a waste. Completely.

I always filter by “pays at least” .$25 and sort by “Creation date: newest first”

This allows me to filter out those low paying HITs that aren’t worth my time as well as what HITs are just posted.

You want to be able to see new HITs as they pop up so you can be one of the first to grab them. Thing is, there are limited spots available to complete each HIT, so you want to make sure you’re one of the first to “reserve” a spot.

It’s difficult to find which HITs are new if you sort by anything else besides Creation Date. Reason you want to see the new HITs first is because you otherwise might miss out on the ones that are good-paying and worth your time.

Because there are limited spots, other turkers might snag those good paying HITs by the time you even see it otherwise.

You can click the “Filter” button at the top to sort it in this way,

The standard “acceptable rate” dubbed by the mTurk community is 10 cents per minute ($6/ hour) BARE MINIMUM. Anything less than that is considered a pretty shit wage (read: NOT WORTH YOUR TIME)


Knowing how good (or how awful) a requester is is fundamental in making an income form mTurk efficiently. You don’t want to waste time with requesters that have high rejection rates or pay a low amount of compensation for the time involved in completing a HIT.

You want reasonable and fair requesters, ones worth your time, ones that provide HITs worth turking for!.


mTurk unfortunately doesn’t have a built in rating system, which is frankly a shitty move on their part. Like, workers should know about bad requesters that are gonna straight up rip you off or waste your time, as well as the good ones that are worth doing tasks for.

Anyway, you’re first going to need some sort of User Script manager, like TamperMonkey or GreaseMonkey, so that you can install one of the mturk rating review scripts

You then want to grab Turkopticon or TurkerView I use TurkerView, a personal preference. Either one is good though, really. They both achieve the same goal of showing you mTurk Requester ratings in an easy user-interface.

Whichever app you choose, it will display a rating next to the Requester’s name and show a pop up of the full rating if you hover your mouse over their name. From there, you can read other users’ reviews or write your own.

You’ll have to sign up for an account (separate from your mTurk account) in order to write reviews.

I’m lazy. I never write reviews. I mean I agree with the principle of giving your fellow turkers a heads up about a requester and appreciate the people that take the time to rate and review them, but I’m just too lazy to partake in that myself. Still, it’s there. As an option.

I mostly use it as a tool. I’ll admit, I don’t contribute to the community as far as ratings go as much as I should.

There are other mTurk related scripts, such as adding a shortcut to copy/paste your worker ID, which frankly used to be necessary.

Amazon has recently added your Worker ID to the top of the main HIT search page though.

You used to have to go into your account settings and through a huge series of hyperlinks to find it. It was a pain in the ass.

Your Worker ID is the bread and butter of this whole operation. You’re going to need to copy/paste it (or maybe memorize it. I don’t know. I never memorized mine.) But you’re going to need to provide your Worker ID in I’d say 90% of the HITs you complete.
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​What I do is I click the “Accept & Work” button with my middle mouse button so that it opens in a new tab

Basically if you see a good paying hit, click it. It’ll go to your Queue, which you can visit later.

I usually queue up/accumulate 5-10 HITs (depending on the estimated completion time of each) before I start actually working on them. This assures I got a decent sized bundle of good-paying HITs and won’t lose out on the opportunity

Once I complete a HIT, I’ll refresh the main HIT page and see if there are any new ones worth doing, then accept (in a new tab) to add to my Queue.

 I pick the one in my Queue with the LEAST amount of time left to work on. 

Rinse and repeat.

Once you “Accept” work, you’re in! 

Well, unless you run out of time, which I’ll get to next.
You essentially reserve a spot by “accepting”. There’s no penalty for not completing a HIT, unless you actually submit it

Running out of time or returning a HIT does NOT count against you or your approval rating. You can return as many HITs as you like or let that timer expire as often as you fancy. Doesn’t matter.

​Now unfortunately, especially for us procrastin8rs that hate deadlines, there is a TIME LIMIT to completing a HIT. Usually they give you more than enough time though so you don’t have to feel completely rushed (eg. a survey that takes 10 mins will give you 60 mins of allotted time before the HIT expires)

No worries though, as I found a loophole around this, even if you run out of time. What I do is I submit the HIT *without* a completion code. Careful now, ‘cause this is something you typically shouldn’t do.

You should always assure the HIT is completed before submitting. Don’t get into the habit of  submitting a blank HIT.. This is just a “worst case scenario” 

Anyway what you do is submit the HIT blank (without a completion code). 

Then go to Dashboard → the date you completed the HIT → name of the HIT → Contact Requester

Then send them a kind message about how you “accidentally forgot” to paste the completion code and provide it right then and there.

Again, I don’t recommend relying on this tactic at all. In fact, an old saying goes, never bite off more than you can chew. In the same vein, never queue up more HITs then you can complete before they expire.

Sometimes though you miscalculate how long shit takes. Sometimes a survey takes a bit longer than you expected. Sometimes you get distracted by your dog barking. Sometimes you gotta take a piss.

Ya know, shit happens.

My point here is not to worry *too* much about the timer. Don’t feel any pressure to “get it done on time”. Just get it done eventually.

Tips on Getting Approved.

Now I’ve done well over 16,000 HITs total and maintain an approval rate of 99.7%, a nearly perfect score, so I know a thing or two about getting approved.

The first thing I’d say to do is to pass any and all attention checks.

In the surveys you’ll be filling out A LOT of multiple choice sections. It’s tempting to just select random bubbles.

But I’m telling you...DON’T.

DO NOT be random in your answers. 

You have to be on the look at for attention checks. Attention checks are little questions that tell you to select a certain answer. Failure of attention checks can lead to rejection of the HIT which is no bueno.

The key is not to pay full attention, though. We’re doing this the lazy way.
 
The key is to RECOGNIZE attention checks and the type of methods used to check your attention

1. The first type of attention check is what I call the “obvious” attention check. This tells you “select ___” as your answer.As long as you look at (not necessarily read verbatim) each individual question, it’s really hard to miss these ones.

 

1. The second type of attention check is what I call. The “boring” attention checks. This has a really long paragraph, which at some point tells you to select (or type) a very specific answer or click on a certain letter to proceed to the next page.I call it boring because it’s trying to bore you and they know you’re probably not going to read the whole wall of text unless you’re paying full attention. Fortunately, you can skim and scan every single paragraph for the word ATTENTION or you can always use ctrl+F when in doubt.

The thing about attention checks is they’re either going to give you a command like “select x” or straight up tell you “if you are paying attention...”

So literally, while taking surveys the only words you need to be on the lookout for are “SELECT” and “ATTENTION”.

If you see that word, guarantee you it’s an attention check and you’ll pass it, not because you were paying attention, you lazy mf, but because you knew what to actually look for.


Now like I said, you want ot answer the questions not randomly. Answer them...honestly actually.

There’s sort of a pattern to the types of questions all these surveys ask so eventually you’ll just memorize your own answers.

I’ve reached the point where I can kind of skim and scan and know what the question is as well as what I’d put for my answer on the scale.

I look for key phrases like “to see if you’re paying attention” as I’m rolling through, of course.

The only other thing I’d say about getting approved is make sure you provide your completion code. This will be a string of letter given to you at the end of the survey.

If there’s some glitch or I forget to copy it, I take a screenshot and upload it to a site like Imgur then include that link in the “Provide completion code here” box”

 Other than that, it’s pretty simple, dude. As long as you're looking for the good reviews, and avoiding Requesters with a high rejection rate, you’re pretty much golden here on leveling up that approval rate.







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Take it slow

Now one of my few rejections I got was because I “finished too quickly” and they were led to believe I didn’t give it enough time and attention, even though I successfully passed their attention checks because I knew what to look for.

(Damn! Caught me! So I wasn’t at all paying full attention though)

So I got smart.

I’ll now paste the code into the box and NOT press submit right away. This will allow the timer to tick down.

The Requester sees how long you spend on the HIT. In the name of the HIT, they’ll often time put the estimated time of completion. I’ll just wait until that amount of time passes before hitting submit.

Another factor too is since I queue up a bunch of HITs at once, the timer ticks down even on HITs that aren’t currently being worked on.

This means it looks like I spent more time doing a HIT than I actually did, making them think “Boy, this guy really put in a lot of time and effort into doing this” and go ahead and give me that approval and pay.

That’s maximizing results baby!
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Withdrawing Your Earnings

Now you’ve got some HITs approved. Payment has gone through. You now get to withdraw your cash! Woo!

There are two options when it comes to this. You can withdraw your earnings in either...

Amazon Gift Card or Direct Deposit

AGC  is nice if you’re gonna order shit on Prime anyway, but I prefer money being in my bank account to be honest. I ain’t about to try and convince you what to do here though. It’s your money and I’m not your advisor. DO as you damn please with it!



You used to be able to request a withdraw whenever you wanted and receive that money (or gift card balance) within 24 hours. Now they have you set up a schedule of every 3 days, 7 days, 2 weeks, or 30 days.

I do 3 days, cause...why not? If I can get paid more often, I see no downside. Some banks have a limit to how many deposits you can make per month, so there’s that. 

​Final Verdict:

But yeah, There ya go, an online money-making blog from the ProcrastiN8r. Back to the roots, baby!

Overall, I give mTurk a Procrasti6/8

It’s not the best paying online money opportunity out there, but it’s one of the most consistent and reliable. The little bit of cents add up a lot and it’s a really easy, low effort thing to to do. 

Heck, I can watch Netflix while earning money or do a survey or two in between rounds of Dead by Daylight or hunts on Dauntless.

It’s rather mindless and you can choose when you do it and how much you do it. A simple way to be your own boss.

Well….sort of.

I don’t know if you could necessarily “make a living” off this site alone. There simply wouldn’t be enough tasks to earn a livable wage (especially during the winter, which is a huge slow down since school’s are out for break and there aren’t academic studies going on which is a huge CHUNK of your income here).

You can, however, make enough each month on mTurk to pay a car bill or cover groceries quite easily.

As you’re lying on the couch, eating your Cheetos and catching up on the Walking Dead, go ahead and give mTurk a try. You’ll be glad you did.

After all, lazy money is awesome!

t’s February, a brief moment after Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air.

We all want to be loved, to find love, to experience love. And most of all, in our love, we want to be happy and to share that happiness with another.

We all find love at one point or another in our lives and at another point, lose said love. Despite our deep desire to love and be loved, we tend to walk away from it when we have it (or have someone walk away from us for that matter)

Love should last, but it typically doesn’t. Not in reality. This isn’t a movie.

I mean, with the divorce rate well over 50%, we must be doing something completely wrong.
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And that number there isn’t counting the couples who are separated but haven’t made it official on paper, or the ones who are still together but just not happy or maybe there’s cheating involved and they aren’t faithful to each other. The list goes on and on.

The couples who love each other and are happy and faithful, the “true love” we’re all seeking after, is actually something quite rare. We’re looking at probably less than 5% of people “in love”, a very small fraction.

It’s a shame, a real damn shame, that love doesn’t last as long as it should or come as often as it should. Well, to be fair, maybe it does come a lot, but certainly doesn’t stick around “forever and always.”

How is it that people fall out of love as quickly as they fell into it? Why does something so seemingly abundant appear out of reach?

Certainly if love is something we all want then it shouldn’t be too much of a burden to find one that lasts. After all, love is something we all seek to fulfill.

I want to explore today what I think is the fundamental problem behind this “love lost” phenomenon and what we can do to find true love, or better yet, have true love find us, and still, even better, actually keep it.

You see, because I believe that “true love” itself is NOT a fairytale. It’s a real damn thing. The fairytale part of the story, however, is how that love actually comes about. That’s what’s false.

We’ve been lied to, brainwashed, into thinking and behaving a certain way to keep us from finding the love we deserve.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s dive right into it!
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The fundamental issue behind our failure to maintain love in our relationships is that we try too hard.

We work too hard for love.

We put in way too much effort into a relationship than really needs to be done. We make issues out of non-issues.  We look for flaws(in the other person) and then choose not to accept them, instead of looking for things to appreciate.

While you can’t ignore flaws, to go out of your way and purposefully look for them, reaffirm they are true, and make a big deal out of them is counter-intuitive.

 We’re making it hard on ourselves and thus our relationships tend to go sideways. 

No relationship can last between any two people that insist on affirming their own insecurities about the other person. Such behavior is detrimental to the relationship entirely.

And believe me, going out of your way to nitpick and nag about little irrelevant things is not only a lot of work but also a waste of time, and not to mention harmful to the relationship itself.

Truth is...

We’re not being lazy enough. We’re not relaxed enough about it. We remain anxious and worrisome with thoughts of “What if this doesn’t work out?” whenever our partner makes a mistake or otherwise does something detestable.

If the immediate reaction is to doubt the strength of the relationship whenever something slightlyless than perfect occurs, then it is that doubt within itself that weakens the relationship, not the actual occurrence that happened.

Furthermore, we try so hard to please our partner that we wind up sacrificing our own dignity. You can’t have a partner who respects you if you don’t respect yourself. You have to have boundaries.

Rather than simply set up boundaries and lean back, we attempt to rebuild our entire structure, who we are as a person, in order to appease to our partner’s wishes.

You bend over backwards just to see them smile and in turn, they manage to find something you’ve done wrong.

Or maybe you’re on the flip side and are the one feverishly finding flaws within your partner no matter what they do.

In a typical relationship (that falls under the statistical majority of failure), one person works hard to please the other, while the other works hard to remain unsatisfied. It creates a toxic dynamic and is quite frankly, bound to fail.

While every relationship is different and every situation is different, there are definitely some similar patterns across the board. There always seems to be one person who feels they “do everything”  and the other who feels it’s “never enough.”

So I’d say take the lazy path. Do nothing and  accept that your partner is  “just enough.”

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Every relationship that ends, ends because one person felt lost attraction towards the other.

Remember that.

It’s not that they don’t care about them. It’s not that they don’t love them. It’s that they are simply unattracted to them and they don’t respect them (romantically at least).

Unattractive feelings build over time by demonstrating a lack of confidence as well as too much effort. If you show you are insecure or if you show you are a “tryhard” to please them, they’ll lose any and all attraction towards you.

Once attraction is lost, the relationship is pretty much over. Because with the loss of attraction follows the loss of respect, and a person who doesn’t respect you certainly doesn’t want to be with you.

And here’s the thing, if you’re confident in yourself, if you’re lazy enough as well, you’ll never put in too much effort or appear unattractive. After all, laziness is all about minimizing effort and maximizing results and confidence is all about showing yourself some of your own damn respect and that’s sexy as hell.

We make it more of a struggle than it needs to be. Love isn’t a struggle, nor is it a battle. It’s the very opposite of that in fact. Love is bonding; it’s companionship. It builds you up, not tears you down.

Love though is not perfect. If anything, it’s accepting flaws.

But we’ve been told, we’ve been convinced, that love should be perfect; love must be perfect. If you have anything less than perfection, then you aren’t in a loving relationship, is the message we get.

So...you must TRY to be perfect. You must “work it out” between the two of you. You must changewho you are and s/he must change who s/he is.

That’s what we’ve been led to believe. But it couldn’t be further from the truth. 

See, love is acceptance and part of acceptance is forgiveness. It’s leaning back and embracing how a person is.


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Forgiveness is what keeps people together.

It doesn’t matter how great the two of you get along or how strong the chemistry is, at some point, your partner is going to do something that irritates, annoys, or quite frankly pisses you off. And you’ll probably do the same to them, to be fair.

This is what causes couples to fight. Grievances, irritations, and being unable to express those feelings maturely. It’s  holding onto the pain, storing it in a little satchel and never really letting it go, never forgiving the person for the wrong they made. Then letting it out in some passive aggressive comment or something else equally as petty.

People fail to let the past go and instead let each other go. They never forgive each other for their mistakes. What happens is you compile a list of fuck ups that never go away and wind up beating each other up (emotionally) about it.

It doesn’t how much you care about a person if you can’t ever forgive them. Forgiveness is key to any relationship. The sheer amount of shit you’re going to have to forgive is incredible.

If you can’t handle that, then maybe you just aren’t ready for a serious relationship, which is okay, but best to admit that to yourself then to pretend otherwise.

Look, just because you or your partner fucked up doesn’t mean the relationship is fucked up. 

Now I’m not saying you tolerate their bullshit to the point where you just let it slide by, unaddressed. Again, we’re getting back to setting boundaries. You have to be clear about what you absolutely will NOT tolerate.


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And do that from the beginning Don’t try to win their heart by acting like you can put up with something that you don’t.

If it’s a dealbreaker, well, then it’s a dealbreaker. But you saved yourself a lot of emotional investment and time on both your parts by setting the boundary nice and early into the relationship.

I mean would you rather lose someone you sorta like and went on a few dates with or lose someone you’ve built a bond and rapport with for years?

In a way, you have to “weed out” people that aren’t a fit for you. A lot of us are afraid to do it. We’re afraid of being alone. So, we put up with shit (that we really don’t want to tolerate) in order to be with someone.

But doing things in this way, we’re not really with the person. They just happen to be there. The only way to truly be with someone is to be truthful 

What I am saying is that you see them as human, not the perfect little angel they’re expected to be. And face it, you ain’t no saint either.

Understanding one another and being open to the fact that you or s/he might just fuck up onc ein a while is what makes things last.

If you are the one who fucks up, don’t waste your energy trying to defend it. Come to grips with the fact that what you did was wrong. They can’t and won’t forgive you if you spend all your breath trying to justify it to them.

Sometimes you have to put aside your pride, put away your Ego, 

It’s better to be together than to be right.

Of course, that said, there are certain actions that are just unforgivable. Cheating being one of them, for example.

For the most part though, your partner deserves some leeway when it comes to making a mistake or doing the wrong thing. And you deserve some leeway in return.

Neither of you are perfect nor ever will be. Relax. Forgive each other and move on.

Even if they make a similar mistake, remember, just like you, they’re learning and growing. I think that’s what people forget -- is that they are finding a partner to learn and grow with, not exemplify perfection with.

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It’s okay to be alone, just not lonely.

It’s believed that the cure to loneliness is finding someone to be with. But there are people IN a relationship that feel lonely, like their partner isn’t really present or maybe they are just addicted to attention.

You have to embrace being alone before you even think about being in a relationship. A relationship is not your one stop shop to solve your own set of insecurities, lack of self esteem, and loneliness.

That’s YOUR responsibility and yours...alone.

Finding “true love” is about finding yourself and being comfortable with yourself, whether you’re with another person or not.
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​True relationships don’t require lots of “work”
When trouble arises in a relationship, we’re told that you gotta “work it out”.
 But problems take care of themselves, again, through acceptance, though forgiveness.

Acceptance is the lazy way of just appreciating the way things are.

Acceptance is the key to love. You must accept yourself, flaws and all, and if you can’t do that, then how can you expect to do that for another person?

It’s not hard work to accept yourself nor to accept someone just the way they are. It doesn’t require negotiating or arguing. There’s no negotiation necessary when you understand one another.

And in order to understand another person, you must first and foremost understand yourself.

When you do, you’ll begin to blur the line between two separate people and become...one. It’s no longer a challenge between two different people with two different sets of beliefs or a clash between two separate Egos.

It’s a uniting force, doing what’s best for “me”. Me is the new “us”. There reaches a point, in love, where there’s no separation at all. To think of yourself is to think of the other and vice versa.

There’s no work involved you’re simply...existing. As one.

It’s a deep level of love that is certainly achievable, but rarely happens because people attempt to achieve it by first finding a partner THEN finding that powerful connection.

You can feel that connection, the love, that binds us all, as human beings, as the universe, without a partner, and it’s only when you do, that it’s actually worth finding one.


Take it easy,

N8

The notion of being in a relationship is pushed in society to not only encourage gift buying between the couple but also to encourage the two to eventually breed and create even more consumers in the future. It’s kind of sick, they see us as nothing but profit potential and not as actual human beings.


The overall message given to us by these corporate bastards is “Buy stuff for each other to fall deeper in love, then once you’re in deep enough love, make children that we can sell toys to.”

Sad but true. Every message about love given to us through advertisements or marketing campaigns is designed to turn us into lifelong consumers.

But you’ve got to ignore all that. Ignore all the bullshit because there’;\ one thing you have to keep in mind despite whatever sort of brainwashing message you see in a commercial...

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You can’t buy love

There’s no price tag behind genuinely caring about a human being. You can’t put a dollar sign on deep intimacy.

Anyone that tries to convince you otherwise comes from a place of greed, not of love. If the person you’re with (or trying to impress for that matter) insists that you spend a fortune to make them happy, then it’s not love they wish for, it’s materialism. And believe me, you’re wasting your time trying to please them.

Thing is, materialism can’t and won’t ever lead to happiness. All it does is get you to desire even more than you already have on a perpetual loop: want more, get more, want more again.

Love, on the other hand, is acceptance. It’s acceptance of who a person is, flaws and all, and wishing the best for them. 

That’s not something you can stock up on the shelves or wrap in a bow. If you see a person for who they truly are, not who you imagine them to be, and can accept them just as that then that is love.

Accepting a person and wishing them well is what love is at its core. It’s not hearts or diamonds or reservations to 5 star restaurants. It’s not roses or teddy bears or even a velvet dress or fancy cocktail.

And love is more than a fleeting feeling. It’s more than just a “spark” between two people. Love is perhaps the force of the universe that binds us together. It’s seeing the beauty in yourself and in those around you. It’s feeling a connection with it all.

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Well I’m late to the party, as usual. But we’ve just witnessed one of the biggest “F U’s” to the rich in history, probably next to the Boston Tea Party. And goddamnit, it’s freaking awesome!

You’ve probably heard by now about the surge in GameStop’s stock price thanks to a reddit user that encouraged folks to buy it up and hold it. And you’ve probably further heard that because of it, a huge hedge fund known as Melvin Capital lost billions.




It’s crazy how quickly the elite will backtrack on their love for a free marker once their little game is played against them. 

They hate the free market now that it’s caused them to lose a big chunk of their wealth. Before when it only added to their empire, they loved it oh so much.

They’re now out there saying how such a surge in the price is “unfair”, how the free market is imbalanced since it can allow poor people to stifle their riches.

Yet it wasn’t seemingly a problem when they were practicing hoarding. Fuckin’ slimey bastards.

 It wasn’t so unfair when they were pulling the exact same tactic to stuff their wallets for years. Such hypocrites! 







Turns out, they are NOT in favor of a free market. What they are in favor of is a market that benefits the rich and screws over the poor. When the good ole reverse card is played, they’re so quick to criticize how awful a ‘free market” really is.

It’s like the serial cheater that gets cheated on and gets all upset. Like dude, uhhh, ya *had it coming*. It was just a matter of time. You can’t pull some bullshit and expect no bullshit to be flung back at you at some point.

I’m not one to be too spiritual, but that’s fucking karma and a half! No joke.

Now you might not understand the ins and outs of how this all happened so I’ll give you the TLDR version.  Basically, Melvin Capital made a huge bet on short selling GameStop stock. What that means is they rented shares (of GameStop) from a borrower and sold it immediately, with the hopes that the price of the share would fall. (Spoiler alert: it didn’t! It actually went up...A LOT!)

Just to put this in simple terms: Let’s say the share is $10each,  when they initially borrow the share. They’d then sell the share for that $10. At that point, they still owe their borrower a GameStop share. The strategy is then to wait for the price to fall and “short sell” it for a profit. Let’s say the price does fall to $5. 

They then buy the share for $5 and return the “borrowed” share to the lender. Since they originally sold it for $10 and re purchased it for $5, they would make a profit of $5.

Buuuuttt….

If the price goes UP. Let’s say to $100. That kind of ruins the game plan. They were betting the price would fall, not increase, yet alone increase tenfold.

 Now, they *still* owe their lender a share but now have to re-purchase it at a loss.They sold it for a mere ten bucks and now the price has skyrocketed. Uh oh!  And the longer they wait to purchase it, assuming the price continues to rise, the bigger loss they have.

Reddit user “DeepF” figured out this hedge fund’s little scheme to make huge bank short selling GameStop and decided it was time *the people* take a slice of that pie.So he gathered people of the Interwebs to buy and “HOLDL” GameStop stock, refusing to sell their share.

Thousands of reddit users joined forces to buy GameStop shares to drive the price up exponentially in what would later become the biggest headline of the week.

Soon after, Melvin Capital lost a whopping $19 Billion (with a B) and poor people who happened to go along with this little reddit brigade made some decent profit.










Bringing down the billionaires! Those greedy bastards. Huzzah! It’s quite a victory.

You know what they say, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. So we (as the lower class) joined the elite’s little gambling game and ended up winning. Now they’re absolutely livid. They are literally fuming in rage.

Now the people on Wall Street are throwing their arms in the air, shouting “we need regulation!” They’re getting mad that people were able to profit so quickly and cut out billions of their own assets.

Wait, what? The same people who have been arguing tried and true for a “free market” are freaking the fuck out , calling for some form of regulation now that someone played them at their own game.

A large group of lower class investors outplayed these greedy ass billionaires and they want some sort of retribution for it. They rigged the market in the same way the hedge fund managers have been doing for so long.

“Wait! No! Stop! You’re poor! You can’t do that!”

They sat on their hordes of wealth, controlling the market the way they see fit for decades, believing never in their lifetime, never at all, would poor people rise up against them and show them a bit of karma.

They lived in their own little bubble of elitist people, keeping the billions upon billions all to themselves. Or so they thought.

It was only when a clever reddit user decided
“Let’s give them a taste of their own medicine.” that the whole thing flipped on its head.

Now they’re spitting it out and throwing a tantrum.

Yeah, sucks doesn’t it? Sucks when the entire state of the economy is in someone else’s hands, huh? Sucks when someone keeps all the wealth (or GameStop shares for that matter) to himself, doesn’t it?

They got a taste and they don’t like it. Not in the least bit.

Fact of the matter is: They made a bet. They’re just mad that they lost.

And  they’ll cry “But that’s manipulating the stock market” 

OH! IS IT NOW???

Something you’ve been doing for years, forcing the price of stocks to change on a whim,  is suddenly immoral and objectionable now that the general public has managed to pull off the same maneuver.

That’s because they know the truth. It’s not gambling.  It’s not even a game, really.  The whole damned thing is rigged. The winner is the one who has the money (read: power) to rig it in the way they want. 

Being a high class billionaire, you don’t really see or expect much competition. I mean, who can compete? Certainly not millionaires, yet alone minimum wage workers.

So when poor people decided to collaboratively pull together large amounts of money to buy and hold GameStop stock, it really threw them for a loop. The market, in which they once controlled, was now, completely, out of freaking control (well, to be fair ,it was in control but under different hands - the hands of the people).

When rich people say they want a free market, they really just want the ability to “freely” manipulate the market however they want with the huge amount of money the own. They don’t mean they want other people to have the ability to do so ‘freely” in return.







Losing control over something once taken for granted or simply expected is enough for anyone to induce panic. 

They’ve grown to expect things to go a certain way, a formula to be followed if you will. “We are the rich. We own this shit. The poor will complain and complain but won’t do anything about it.” 

That’s what they’ve come to expect. That’s the way they were living. They took it all for granted. It was just the way things were and always be, in their mind. They had this very “Can’t touch us” attitude”, where it’s “We’ve got the money, what you gonna do ‘bout it?” and expect no sort of rebuttal.

It’s like the bully who keeps picking on the one kid, never expecting him to punch back, but when he does, it’s fucking nerd strength, all the built up pain and resentment of being harassed and teased for years comes out in a wrathful fist.

The poor have been bullied by the rich for years, and this little GameStop jump was our nerd fist knocking them out with unforeseen strength. We’ve had enough already!

We (the poor and middle class) did something about it. We broke the fence, the invisible barrier of “financial expertise” the billionaires hid behind and we came in like a wrecking ball.








It sent the message of “If you won’t give it to us, we’ll take it!”

They thought we’d just keep on schlepping to work, chasing the dream of fortune. They stole our lunch money! Little did they know we’d have the balls to come and take it back 

And panic they did, watching their assets plummet. How humiliating. Aww, poor billionaires. They got their ass kicked, like the bully, rightfully deserved.

But they didn’t just shut up and admit defeat, as any bully really would do. They had their pride, their Ego, their big pompous attitude that they had the RIGHT to all their riches, just like a bully believes he has the right to your lunch money.

They wanted to force these squatters to sell their shares “for sake of the economy.” Yeah, as if “the economy” is solely based on how the rich are doing and not your everyday folk.

Meanwhile, GameStop shareholders who caught the drift just told them to “stick it”. After all, that’s free market, baby! Can’t force someone to do anything with their share. They held their share and held it tightly as the price of GameStop flew to the moon.

It’s funny how they’ve sat in their fancy yachts, sippin fancy cocktails, chuckling to themselves “Oh look at these poor people. How pathetic of them to always ask for handouts”

We asked for higher wages, a more fair distribution of wealth, and they replied saying:
“Quit complaining about low wages and learn financial literacy. Learn how to invest.”

So we did.  We know how to use Google. We figured out their little game. ANd we played it. We played it hard.

And now they’re all like:
“Oh wait! Not like that! Don’t invest like that! We mean just keep putting money away in a savings account so you can earn bread crumbs while getting us rig the stock market in our favor to make multi billions of dollars.”

Got played by their own game. Now they’re broke.

Maybe they can take a page from their own book of advice and “pull up your boot straps.Get a good job Work hard.” I mean, that’s what they tell us. Certainly it can work for them.


After all, if they have the quote on quote “work ethic” that it takes to become a billionaire, then it shouldn’t be too much of a hassle to expect them to pull off the same feat a second time around, right?

No, of course not. ‘Cause they know deep in their heart of hearts very damn well  it ain’t about hard work. 

Saying hard work is the “key ingredient” to success is  nothing but sheer propaganda to poor people to encourage them to continue to work their asses off for measly wages that’s barely enough to cover the bills.

These billionaired bastards know they’re lazy af and their “work hard for their money” message is all bullshit. They ain’t gonna practice what they preach ‘cause fact of the matter is, they’re speaking out of their ass when they’re telling you “Oh, you just gotta work hard.”










These last few days has proved that. These last few days has proven the obvious fact that billionaires don’t work hard. Their money works *for* them.

They have enough money to make money *off* their money. They make bets. Rig the bets. And win.

Things were going well for them for quite a while. They had it made. Be rich. Get richer. And tell the dirty poor they can be rich too if they “just work hard enough.”

But we decided. Ya know what, let’s stop listening to what they’re telling us, and let’s take a look at what are they actually *doing*. After all, actions speak louder than words. Let’s see what actions they are taking that’s keeping them rich and pull a little copycat and do the exact same thing. 

Let’s replicate their playbook and not just listen to what we’re being told.

They can run their lips all they want, but it ain’t enough to convince us that “working hard” is the way to make billions. After all, some of us have been working hard ass for decades, day in and day out, only to earn a teeny weeny paycheck that can barely put food on the table, yet alone afford some sort of luxury expense like a yacht or ferrari.

It ain’t the coal miners schlepping underground who are billionaires. It’s the lazy assholes, sittin’ around doing nothing while other people as well as their own money rake in more dough.

We said “enough is enough”. We see what you’re doing versus what you’re telling us to do and we ain’t buying your bullshit no more. Hard work ain’t getting us rich, but you know what is? Manipulating the stock market.

People gathered ‘round to do what the billionaires were *doing* and guess what? It goddamn worked! 

Years and years of working hard at a 9 to 5 job land they can’t even afford a pot to piss, but just a few days of “playing the game” of the free market, and BOOM baby! Jackpot!

I love it. It’s the modern day peasants grabbing their pitchforks, burning their crops, and storming the castle.

It’s the common folk no longer tolerating a corrupt rule and taking matters into their own hands. 

It’s the procrastin8rs saying “We ain’t gonna work hard for money”

This is the beginning of a revolution.

It shows there is strength in numbers.  Sure, the billionaires own *nearly* half the wealth. But you know who owns MORE THAN HALF the wealth? WE DO!

We, collectively, as the working class and poor.

There’s this notion that “The rich own everything and I can’t do anything about it.” 

That’s what they want you to believe! They want you to believe you don’t have any power. They want you to believe you’re stuck being poor.

These past few days have proven that such a belief is false. We, the people, have the power to fight against these corrupt greedy billionaires. We have the power to redistribute wealth. We just gotta play their own game right back at ‘em.

We’re done schlepping 9 to 5 for your measly ass wages. We see how lazy you are.  And we’re pretty damn lazy too. 

We ain’t gonna work hard no matter what you tell us. Give us a bigger slice of the pie, or we’ll cut it ourselves if we have to.

Billionaires have been pulling strings to earn and keep their fortune. We’ve managed to find those strings and pull them ourselves. The tables have turned. The playing field is even.

Honestly, seeing so many people mass together and buy GameStop to surge the price and screw over a billionaire hedge fund manager is a complete game changer.

It shows we’re not as helpless to the rich and their power as they made us out to be. The rich ain’t so big after all. 

But the fight’s not over. This is just a small battle won in a giant war between the classes. I’m not one to condone any sort of violence, nor am I actually declaring any sort of war.

Sometimes you have to fight for the good. You have to fight for what’s right. You have to protect the morale thing.

The next step is to do what the rich have been doing for years: BE LAZY.

I mean, let’s face it, after the huge $19 billion loss, you think any of those pompous bastards are gonna “work hard” to earn it back?











Of course not. They’ll just sit back and  try and make more (rigged) bets to restore their wealth.They won’t spend a single 8 hour shift doing any sort of job. They’re not gonna “work their way up the corporate ladder” or anything. They’ll earn back every dollar the way they found to be most effective: getting other people and their own money to do all the work for them.

They know that doesn’t lead to billions. But it’s in their disinterest to have you believe otherwise. They need you to believe that. They need you to believe that working hard leads to success (in billions of dollars) in order to keep you distracted from finding ways in which to earn anywhere even close to that.

But ya know what? We ain’t distracted by their little charade any more. We see their sleight of hand and it ain’t tricking us any more.

The fact that your average blue collar worker was able to make even a bit of a small fortune from the GameStop frenzy can perhaps wake people up and make them realize “Wait a minute, what the fuck am I actually doing at this job?”

Wealth is gonna have to be redistributed one way or the other, whether that’s by increasing wages or having the poor unite and play the rich’s own game in the stock market.

They’ve sat on their hoard of gold too long. Dragon fuckers!

And by the way, just to clarify, I’m all for profit. 

I’m all for businesses building up their own enterprise and making a profit.










But there is a difference, a very fine line, between profit and GREED.

A billion of dollars, yet alone multiple billions of dollars. That crosses that line. BY FAR. You don’t earn even a single billion by not screwing somebody over. You have to cut wages, cut healthcare, cut things people need, in order to see yourself grow such a fat stack.

And maybe one might say “well they shouldn’t be FORCED to be charitable!”

I want you to humble yourself a bit. Look, no matter how much you earn, even if you manage to strike it rich with MILLIONS,  you’re always a lot closer to being homeless than being a billionaire.

There is indeed such a thing as “excessive amount of wealth” and these people have it. It needs to be shared and if it won’t be shared, well goddamnit, we’ll take it.

If they ain’t gonna hand out, we’ll make sure they lose it and hand it over.

 Of course, now they know that even though they are shark in the sea, a giant school of fish can be quite the predator.

Laziness is how these people earned their wealth and we’re just embracing our own laziness to get what we deserve.

The crazy thing about all this. Despite the number, ya know 50% of the company’s networth gone. That’s a lot.

But ya know what? It ain’t nothing. They’ll be okay. More than okay. They’ll be able to live life actually pretty luxurious despite all this.
I mean, can you imagine losing half of your net worth? You probably couldn’t even pay a single month’s rent, yet alone go off to buy a giant farmhouse to settle and retire in.

Despite the insane amount of BILLIONS that were taken, it’s really just shaving off a small amount of the wealth available.

The fact is, there is plenty. More than plenty of resources. And we could all live a life of luxury and leisure. It’s just a matter of how willing (or unwilling) people are to share it. And so far the pattern is to be greedy and refuse to share it at all.

I like the fact that we’ve begun taking matters into our own hands. We’ve begun  to slowly yet surely take heaps of gold from the evil dragon’s lair.

Moving forward, watch as these billionaires are given bail outs for their “mistake”. Mistake? Bullshit.

You think if you or I made a “mistake” in the stock market and lost some money, we’d be compensated at all? Oh HECK NO!

The system is corrupt at its very core. And unfortunately, politicians tend to follow the desires of whoever fills their wallets. I wouldn’t be surprised if they once again laughed off an increase to the minimum wage and signed an order to bail out these billionaires without blinking an eye.

We just have to remember: While individually, we may not have as much power and money as a billionaire, collectively, together, we have so much more power (and money) than they ever account for us using.

The GameStop surge is solid proof of what kind of power we hold.

Let’s embrace our laziness together and build the wealth we deserve.







Take it easy,

N8


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