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[inaudible] I'm an author. I wrote a book called Why Are You Still A Slave. When I first became an author, what I noticed was everybody wanted a free book and they wanted me to sign it for them. It's funny, because authors are one of the few categories of art form where people think that they're entitled to a free copy. If you're an architect and you do something creative, people don't go, "I want a free copy of that drawing." Or if you're a painter, they don't go, "Can I have a free painting?" But when you're an author, people nowadays, because the written word is so easily duplicated, they think, "Oh hey, it cost you nothing, you should give it to me for free." Now, it didn't cost me nothing. I gave up my weekends for maybe two years to write a good piece of work like Why Are You Still A Slave, and hopefully I wrote it to help people. So having patrons helping me to write my next book would be fantastic. If you liked my first book, then great, subscribe and help me write my next book.

Now, just to give you a quick history lesson about patrons. In 1452 Leonardo da Vinci was born, and he painted the Mona Lisa. It took him 10 years or 15 years to paint, I think. It was like a life's work for him, and if he hadn't had major patrons to support him and help him whilst he was doing that work, we wouldn't have it. But we also wouldn't have all the engineering designs that he did, or all the inventions that he made, or the medical science that he advanced at the time. So patrons are very, very important in our society, and thank you very much for your support to all the patrons on this channel. You might not be a creative person, but helping creative people advance our society is really, really important.

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