"Dear New Yorker Writers, You recently formed a union. Congratulations on that. We hope that you receive all that you desire. But because of the argument in yo

"Dear New Yorker Writers, You recently formed a union. Congratulations on that. We hope that you receive all that you desire. But because of the argument in your open letter announcing the union –– an argument that proposes that you should receive more money because you want to have more money –– we are concerned that your intelligence, considerable though it is, is in this case unable to grapple with the actual reality of the world. Your magazine comprises both fact (sort of) and fiction. When you’re asking for money, it’s typically best to focus on the fact world, not the fictional world."