Greta Thunberg Calls For “Overthrow of Whole Capitalist System” While Promoting Her New Climate Book

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[–]ActuallyNot 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's pretty hard to make much money from a book. You can do it if you're Stephen King or J K Rowling. Maybe Greta's got the international profile to make a living from it.

A relative of mine wrote an autobiography that was the best seller in the class in this country for a few weeks. He reckons he probably made about $5 per hour, less what he spent doing promotion.

He's anesthetist, so that's probably two orders of magnitude less that what he earned going to work.

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Looked into it a little more

"Greta Thunberg says she earns no money from her activism"

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/greta-thunberg-activism-net-worth-earning-b2203372.html

I retract my criticism of Greta. This person needed to research their article better or more likely this is a rather effective smear attack

[–]ActuallyNot 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. The young woman's genuine.

Interesting that as soon as the criticisms came up about her being a money making scheme, she made sure to donate all her winnings and activism based income to charity: I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me.

But you can't know anything about her and not know she's genuine. It's one of the superpowers of her type of autism: she's a straight talker.