AdamB wrote:Making a little coin along the way doesn't hurt either! The sock puppets are the giveaway here, if there wasn't a little $$ involved, they never would have been employed to continue milking for a revenue stream.
I actually don't think money is his main motivation. I think it's more the case of his doomerism becoming so obsessive that he can't hold a steady job and so he has to sort of collect tips from it.
This is similar to how that guy from The Oil Drum had to admit at the bottom of his farewell message that he hasn't had a steady job in 7 years and had to actually go back to focusing on his career--which, apparently, just meant he started his own separate blog and collects tips. Funny how doomerism can become this one-way-street.
No, I think what drives him most of all is grabbing some modicum of attention/fame for being a Cassandra.