I wouldn’t waste anymore energy on disliking this type of story. There will always be hacks and our revenge is that, deep down inside, they know what they are. There are no Nobel or Pulitzer Prizes for self-help or How-to writers. They’ll never see their work in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, or Vanity Fair. All but a very few will make much more than an okay living. The ones who do don’t make money off writing so much as they do selling the dream of being a writer to others. That’s not who we want to be anyway. In a world of Kardashians, be an original. You may never get rich, but you’ll have a shot at immortality.