• Hildegarde
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    4 years ago

    Quote from article, confirming OP: "How much money does he make from his work? None.

    “The idea of making it all free fascinates me. My mother grew up in the Soviet Union … So I’m very conscious of what, what it can mean to make knowledge free, to make information free,” he said.

    Pulling from books, academic journals and other sources, he spends more than three hours a day researching, editing and writing.

    Even his day job is research, working in records and information at U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He joked that his colleagues probably think he’s nuts."