How are Emblem Project profits used?
To date, almost all profits have gone back into the Project. They are used to develop new products, to increase the size of orders from manufacturers in order to get better buys and thus avoid the need to raise prices annually (and more than once allow for price decreases), and to promote the Emblem. Of late, little of the latter has been necessary but it still gets done here and there. A small percentage gets filed away into an emergency fund in case I ever have to sic my lawyer on copyright violators who might ruin the Emblem for us all. A little goes to me as a token payment for running the operation. At present, I “pay” myself in the form of buying myself a nice lunch out or a new magic trick to add to my repertoire now and then. It’s been a long time since I bothered calculating how much I “made,” but back then it was so far below minimum wage that it made flipping McBurgers look like the fast track to early retirement. The amount is higher today, now that the Project is more acti
