[NetMageSCW]

And F Scott Fitzgerald died in poverty essentially unknown, while James Patterson is worth over $800 million.

[projektfu]

Wholly untrue. Fitzgerald made a ton of money, was well known, and overspent.

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/04/f-scott-fitzgera...

[gamblor956]

That's a different metric.

The parent's anecdote claimed that quantity led to quality, when objectively speaking it does not in the real world. I could have alternatively used Ali Baba as an example of what quantity gets you.