Why those people are not treated as employees and paid at least a minimum wage?
Is that a sarcasm?
The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
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Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you sure it’s the monetization model, and not the nature of the content, that explains these numbers?
are people paying more for porn than movies?
This is not just porn though, this is lonely people buying (imagined) personal intimate connections with real, attractive people.
Edit: I’m sure people would pay more money in a model that makes them feel like they’ve got an actual personal connection with the creators, no matter the type of content. However adding sex to the mix probably boosts that effect quite a bit, if I’m allowed to speculate.
Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
When porn companies treat models as employees, they pay them 300 dollars for a video that makes them 3 million dollars. If i post a clip of a speech explaining how to program on youtube, and link to my paypal where you can buy the full video, shipped via mega, who should pay me as an employee? i think we can both agree nobody. If somebody makes a website to make it easier such that you can do all 3 steps in one place…
The problem is that employers are allowed to exploit workers like that. The wages should be reflecting the value workers create.
There's no employer.
When you post a message on Craigslist, do you also expect to be payed?
Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
When porn companies treat models as employees, they pay them 300 dollars for a video that makes them 3 million dollars. If i post a clip of a speech explaining how to program on youtube, and link to my paypal where you can buy the full video, shipped via mega, who should pay me as an employee? i think we can both agree nobody. If somebody makes a website to make it easier such that you can do all 3 steps in one place…
The problem is that employers are allowed to exploit workers like that. The wages should be reflecting the value workers create.
I would like to know your answer to the question in the second paragraph, as well as your response to the final paragraph.
Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
#55> The median take-home revenue is $136 per month. If you value a creator’s time at a $15 minimum wage, the median creator needs to be spending less than 9 hours per month on her OnlyFans to break even. > Relative to effort, it looks like most accounts lose money. I guess you could assume that. But I'm not convinced without data. If you asked me whether I expect the median OnlyFans creator to spend more or less than 1…
Furthermore, the author is assuming the creator is in the US, which isn't a given. There are countries where $136/month is a fairly decent living.
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Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
#56Why those people are not treated as employees and paid at least a minimum wage?
If I hire MasterCard to process payments for me, I don't become MasterCard's employee.
Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, can you be more precise? Do you know how OnlyFans works? It’s like reading that majority of seller accounts on eBay make less than $145 a month and then replying that they should be treated like employees - employees of who? eBay? OnlyFans lets you sell your content online, just like you would on eBay or Etsy - if you want to make more money then…make more content? Or make content that people want to buy? I don’t…
Isn't that the same as taking overtime as an employee? They are working for the benefit of OF. It's like saying a factory let's you assemble phones and if you want to make more money assemble more.
If you really want to stick to that analogy, it's more like a makerspace that lets rent their facilities and webshop to make and sell your own phones, and takes a cut from your profits.
Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
are people paying more for porn than movies?
This is not just porn though, this is lonely people buying (imagined) personal intimate connections with real, attractive people. Edit: I’m sure people would pay more money in a model that makes them feel like they’ve got an actual personal connection with the creators, no matter the type of content. However adding sex to the mix probably boosts that effect quite a bit, if I’m allowed to speculate.
No it's mostly porn, and many (partnered) people enjoy porn and want to support the creators. There are other platforms for sugar babies
Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
#59> The median take-home revenue is $136 per month. If you value a creator’s time at a $15 minimum wage, the median creator needs to be spending less than 9 hours per month on her OnlyFans to break even. > Relative to effort, it looks like most accounts lose money. I guess you could assume that. But I'm not convinced without data. If you asked me whether I expect the median OnlyFans creator to spend more or less than 1…
Furthermore, the author is assuming the creator is in the US, which isn't a given. There are countries where $136/month is a fairly decent living.
With the current food prices, there are no countries where $136/month is a fairly decent living. Countries where $150/month is the average salary are a hellish place to live in.
Re: The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Furthermore, the author is assuming the creator is in the US, which isn't a given. There are countries where $136/month is a fairly decent living.
With the current food prices, there are no countries where $136/month is a fairly decent living. Countries where $150/month is the average salary are a hellish place to live in.
Current food prices where?