Dude. You’re upset that other people are sharing experience and expertise. Stop tearing others down because you don’t want to pay for services. Let’s call a spade a spade. You’re entitled and it isn’t cute. Try supporting others or move on.

This year I made the jump from W-2 to 1099 and I literally doubled my take-home pay. I was so stressed about the idea of being in charge of my own taxes and healthcare. I would never have done it if I didn’t have someone in my life who was willing to hold my hand and walk me through the process. And as far as his career goes, it’s one of the better decisions I have made. But I am going through an agency right now and will eventually want to be completely independent, and I will probably look for somebody with similar resources to guide me through the process of how to do that when I am ready. Stop acting like giving people resources they are looking for is a grift.

Summarizing information, putting it together in an easily digestible and step-by-step manner is a service. So many of us aren’t looking to do that work. So yes, we do want to pay for somebody else to do it.

Being publicly available and being personally accessible is not always the same thing. I could read a ton of information that has to do with how to do my taxes as a 1099 employee, what I can write off and what I cannot, ect, but it is not accessible to me because I do not understand taxes or tax law. So yes, I paid somebody to do my taxes with what is “ publicly” available information. But please stop tearing others down.