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Something still feels wrong about something that takes comaparatively so little effort making so much money. I’m not saying it’s easy but it’s much much easier
by nautilus12 8y ago
Something still feels wrong about something that takes comaparatively so little effort making so much money. I’m not saying it’s easy but it’s much much easier than many other proffesions. Think of software engineers slaving over brilliant designs staying up night after night for a few hundred thousand per year, or even NFL stars that expose their brains to permanent damage. It’s almost like a new form of the lottery. The viral lottery.
- jakeinspace 8y agoOr think of villagers in rural Africa or India, doing intense manual labor all day for little playoff and a premature death. Unfortunately, life's brutal and unfair. You could take your savings and put it all on 28 in roulette, and hey, maybe you too can have massive payout for minimal effort.
- preommr 8y agoSo much of life is just blind luck. Like finding a big source of oil on a bunch of land in the middle of nowhere worth nothing.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoIt goes against everything we're lead to believe about hard work always paying off. But that's life.
- Nasrudith 8y agoMuch of what we were taught about hard work was pushed by exploiters of peasantry whose fallen descendants would literally risk a disgraceful death and believed damnation as highwaymen rather than work a day in their lives. It just perpetuated and their lies got out of their control and got many of them killed several times historically - from Cromwell to communism. And it didn't end too well for their deposers either - from their own actions no less. The truth is hard work can pay off not that it does and working smarter is always a better option.
- DownGoat 8y agoIf it actually takes so little effort, then why aren't they outcompeted by someone putting more effort into it? Is breaking big on Youtube only luck based?