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I hope this doesn't ruin the kid for real work.
by ykevinator 8y ago
I hope this doesn't ruin the kid for real work.
- willbw 8y agoUS median income is roughly $30k, why would you want to do "real work" if you can make a decades worth of money in a year? * * not saying the particular characteristics of this story are not a little creepy
- mb_72 8y agoIsn't that the same argument that could be applied to child actors / singers / performers? I don't know the statistics, I admit, but there seem to be not so many people who were those things are a kid who are happy and well balanced people, and many who are not (or who are dead). Given the sexual undertones of a child doing ASMR, I can't imagine being a child Youtube star is going to work out any better.
- RickS 8y ago> I hope this doesn't ruin the kid for real work. Despite the low score at time of this comment, I think this is a defensible concern for the same reason attributing kid's success to hard work leads to better outcomes than attributing it to talent. The shape of the linkage between work and reward established during development has meaningful implications for discipline/motivation/expectations down the line. If this kid actually gets rich, the money's treated well, and they stay rich, then good on em. But I wouldn't want to ASMR through my tweens and have the money stop, and then have warped expectations in a reality that doesn't care about those expectations. On the other hand, if the expectation becomes "you can be spectacularly successful being prolific and meeting the demand of an hungry audience", maybe that's a great lesson.