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I have one sad and one happy story to tell you. The happy story is that The Shepherd's Notes has a second golden leader. Once again, I would like to thank Ye Leng Qingshen Feng Lan for their generous reward, and also thank every reader for their reward and support.

The sad news is that with the tax reform, writers’ annual royalties tax rate will be increased to 45%.

This incident is a big blow to the author. There is a profit-sharing relationship between the author and the website, with the profit-sharing ratio being 30%, 50% or 70%. This time, nearly half of the tax is taken away at once, which feels like the sky is falling.

Online writers are more like programmers, who all rely on their youth to make a living. For example, Zhaizhu, who has been typing for ten years, can feel that his physical fitness has declined significantly, and his brain does not work as fast as before. He has not made much money, and his body is showing signs of breaking down.

Zhaizhu himself has no idea whether he can continue to work at such a high intensity.

With so much tax taken out at once, the pension money is basically taken away.

Alas, a sigh.

Anyway, today is July 1st, and I implore my brothers to vote for Zhaizhu and Shepherd's Chronicles with their guaranteed monthly tickets!

Many readers do not understand Zhu’s complaint. It is right to pay taxes, but service must also be good. Now the reading ratio of pirated and genuine books is dozens to one, with only one genuine reader among dozens of readers, or even hundreds to one. For some books, it is thousands to one, with only one genuine reader among a thousand readers.

Online literature is an emerging industry, but pirated websites have been numerous since its inception and are still numerous now.

Just now someone was trying to stir up trouble, saying that we should watch pirated copies.

However, this industry is also one that consumes brain power and harms the body. Traditional literature takes several years to write hundreds of thousands of words, while online writers need to write more than two million words a year to ensure survival. Most of the authors I know have occupational diseases, such as periarthritis of the shoulder, keratitis, lumbar muscle strain, lumbar disc herniation, hunchback, and decreased vision.

So, online writing is a job for young people, isn’t this right?

The pressure of survival in this industry is huge, and it takes a huge amount of effort to carve out a path. It is also an industry without any guarantees. You know the consequences by yourself, and your next book may fail.

If we can provide a good living environment for online literature and make pirated websites less rampant, not to say that there will be no pirated websites at all, but as long as the ratio of pirated to genuine reading reaches ten to one, the authors will be grateful and Zhaizhu and other authors will have no complaints no matter what proportion of tax is paid.

The general environment is that the ratio of taxes is dozens to one, hundreds to one, or even thousands to one. If high taxes are imposed on the middle and upper classes in the online literature sector at this time, it will suppress this industry, which is not conducive to the development of the online literature industry.

I hope that while raising the tax rate, we can also improve the environment. Only by rectifying the smog and controlling pollution can we have a better growth environment.

If the environment is not well established and the tax is levied directly, it will be like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.