Vox is also not your friend.
Corporations are not your friend.
YouTube millionaires are not your friends
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m sorry, but no. Not anymore. Everything is run by being able to get money from VC investors, and to make money for them. It IS the main driver. Idealists learn pretty fast how their idealism won’t take them anywhere in Silicon Valley of 2023. Or they’re stupid or tone deaf enough to keep on going and thinking that their n-th to-do list app will change the world. I’m afraid I gotta break it to you, but your romanti…
It can be the main driver for some, but not the only one for all :)
And the people who are mainly motivated by money greatly appreciate the second group. I think in poker jargon they're called "marks" (less politely, suckers).
Still, as a neutral observer to this, their sacrifice is greatly appreciated!
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#53> Drop shipping, or the practice of PURCHASING cheap goods, usually from China, and selling them on a legitimate-seeming website for profit Vox doesn't even understand what drop shipping is. The whole point is that the goods don't need to be owned. Vox are mad people are watching dumb videos instead of their own low quality articles.
vox seems not to understand what mass retail is either. Things sold by well known brick and mortar stores are also made cheaply in China.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I admit I envy their ability to not care how they are making their money. I was once pitched a gig that, after you boiled away the flowery tech contraptions, amounted simply to “run your own scummy leadgen business.” I felt like I had to take a shower after hearing that pitch. Wouldn’t it be nice if I didn’t have that part of my brain that recoils in disgust at treating other human beings as “leads” to be bought and…
If you want to get rid of that part of your brain, check my profile and fill out the form on my homepage ... Apart from the lack of personal fulfillment, isn't it good for society, and thus not such a bad job, that fools are parted from their money? After all, consumers decide what our society does. If a consumer is not able to recognize a scam, how can society trust them to make meaningful decisions? A hustle guru w…
I do wish this is a sarcastic comment, can't tell anymore these days.
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#55“If you’re taking AI or drop shipping startup ideas from online videos with hundreds of thousands of views, you’ve already lost.” So nobody can find inspiration and learn about new things from YouTube videos? This seems like a fairly obtuse statement. I don’t watch these hustle porn guys on YouTube but I learn a hell of a lot from smaller tech YouTubers who produce educational content. The author is clearly quite sal…
I think you’ve missed the point of the comment. The point is that these people aren’t making their money from what they’re preaching, they’re making it from YouTube. Even if there were some validity to what they’re saying in the videos, if the video has 3 million views by the time you’ve watched it then you’re at least the 3 millionth fish in the packed-to-the-gills salmon farm by then and there’s no margin left for…
Vox also doesn't make their money from whatever it is they preach, but from Vox getting clicks.
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#56That's because the author didn't see my youtube video on how to get rich in 2 easy steps. /s
Step 1: Already be rich.
I built Reynholm Industries from the ground up. When I started, I only had two things in my possession: A dream and six million pounds. Now I have a business empire the like of which the world has never seen the like of which. I hope it doesn't sound arrogant when I say that I am the greatest man in the world.
-Denholm Reynholm
Re: YouTube millionaires are not your friends
#57“If you’re taking AI or drop shipping startup ideas from online videos with hundreds of thousands of views, you’ve already lost.” So nobody can find inspiration and learn about new things from YouTube videos? This seems like a fairly obtuse statement. I don’t watch these hustle porn guys on YouTube but I learn a hell of a lot from smaller tech YouTubers who produce educational content. The author is clearly quite sal…
I think you’ve missed the point of the comment. The point is that these people aren’t making their money from what they’re preaching, they’re making it from YouTube. Even if there were some validity to what they’re saying in the videos, if the video has 3 million views by the time you’ve watched it then you’re at least the 3 millionth fish in the packed-to-the-gills salmon farm by then and there’s no margin left for…
It’s a bit like people who write financial advice books. They don’t make their money from their clever investment ideas, they make it from selling self help books.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure how you get from "If you’re taking AI or drop shipping startup ideas from online videos with hundreds of thousands of views, you’ve already lost" to "So nobody can find inspiration and learn about new things from YouTube videos?"
If a startup idea is good, it doesn’t really matter if someone mentioned it in a video that got hundreds of thousands of views. Execution is still the key component. ‘You’ve already lost’ implies that every idea must be completely unique in order for you to ‘win’ whatever that means.
You are stripping all of the context of the statement and then responding to the universal form of it that you created yourself, I dunno that Vox can be blamed too much in this case given how much you're working in order to be mad about it.
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#59Just an aside, but I've noticed a lot of popular video trends among the younger generation revolve around watching somebody you don't really know, doing things I would I've done with friends.
Reaction videos, eating things, hanging out and making jokes, making a stupid contest, trying some new experience...
It's like there is an entire part of the children/teen population that have such a bland life they feel good while watching somebody else living it.
Just read my comment and realized how "old man yells at cloud" it sounds, but hey, maybe someone will have something interesting to answer.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's lots of similar programming videos, does that mean you should not learn programming because you'll be the 3 millionth fish? Competition exists in every niche, you still have to get better than others, there's no silver bullet.
If you learn programming you can create a completely unique and useful program. Dropshipping on the other hand is thousands of different people selling the exact same product, there is no value added.
Tbf, from the economical perspective both are a lottery of marketing.