Goodwill Was Yesterday

You're paying for hard work

I have generally been altruistic about writing and researching on this site for a long time. After last night’s debacle, in which a previously close ally denigrated me publicly on a Mormon priestcraft podcast, I have decided that goodwill was yesterday. When you subscribe to IRA, you’re paying me for the hours of work I do researching each article I post, to make sure it’s sourced and well-founded.

This is what that former ally texted me yesterday.

Well, people who don’t like to pay for the work that goes into the information I present on this and other sites aren’t entitled to access it for free. I’ve tried to make IRA as cheap as possible, with subscriptions to all five sites I write on at $8 a month or $50 a year. At a certain point, a monthly subscription to IRA was $5 a month, which was the lowest price Substack would let me charge.

For those of you who support this Substack with your subscription, thank you. I spend a great deal of time and money and effort to accurately report on the topic of ritual abuse and to make the information easily accessible. A lot of people don’t like to pay for information or work; they want things for free.

IRA will now post content entirely behind a paywall. If you want to access future articles, you’ll have to subscribe. It is what it is, and I am fully aware of the possible backlash to this move. I’ve spent a great deal of my own money-in addition to the time and the effort-on generating content for this site over the past four years. I’m no longer going to do that, especially given the events of the past day or so.

I hope my subscribers stay, and if the guys who don’t like paying for information go, well, that’s the price I’m willing to pay. Information isn’t free. I know, because I’ve paid for court records and property records and travel costs associated with this site out of pocket many times, and the vast majority of the money ever generated by this site went towards those types of expenses.

Goel