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Standard econ would suggest that if someone is alcoholic and does not want to drink (e.g. the marginal utility of one drink was <0) then they would just abstain from drinking. No need to take a drug at all.

Addictions like alcohol, drug addcition and smoking can in fact be pretty rational - people just heavily discount future costs. Gary Becker wrote about this: http://people.virginia.edu/~slf9s/teaching/econ452/readings/Becker%20and%20Murphy%201988.pdf

• Why is FIFA so consistently corrupt yet so difficult to change?

• What is the governance structure like at FIFA? What sort of independent oversight is there? Is the lack of oversight one of the reasons for the continuing corruption?

• Why is Sepp Blatter so popular within FIFA yet so villified in the wider media and hated by fans?

• In your opinion is there any chance that Qatar will not host the World Cup?

Hey Emmanuel - huge bibliophile here, and anything that means more quality books out there is a great idea in my eyes.

• Do you focus mainly on fiction or non-fiction? Which do you think works best via Reedsy?

• How do you select the publishing professionals? Is it a traditional CV/interview selection process, or do you give them sample tasks to do beforehand, anything like that?

• What do you do if none of your freelancers want to work with an author?

• At this point in time what is the best way for an author to market themselves? What support will Reedsy give with marketing? Presumably interviews, PR, review copies, that sort of stuff?

• You mentioned that Reedsy will, in future, publish and take a royalty, like a traditional publisher. With the cost of production for ebooks, why not just publish all books created on Reedsy and take a cut of all of them?

That makes a lot of sense - thanks for your answers. Do you do any verification on the freelancers to make sure that they are who they say they are and haven't fabricated credentials or anything? Has that ever happened?

I went from a very conventional career path (accounting) to working in a startup. That ended badly at the end of last year -- I was let go for performance issues -- and now I'm trying to get back into accounting, but seem to be having a lot of difficulty. I think hiring managers and recruiters are put off by my unconventional history in what is a conventional profession. How would you address this on my CV? Happy to provide more detail if you want it.