Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to

> Despite the fact that for most people, the act of writing looks very boring, author-content creators succeed by making the visually uninteresting labor of typing on a laptop worthwhile to watch.

I heard this described as "entreporn" and find it to be accurate. Selling a coding course? Make 10 videos showing yourself pouring coffee before sitting down before your opulent WFH setup with a vertically oriented screen showing you doing Very Important Work (TM).

Everybody online is selling something and using the same tired tricks. It's exhausting to wade through these implicit ads while also flipping past the actual ads.

> For each football player or musician or influencer or artist who makes it big, there are thousands of people spending millions of hours who fail. The same is probably true for developers and entrepreneurs. That time and those lessons really can't be re-purposed, and have no economic value.

I played college football, you're all sorts of wrong.

Athletics teaches you discipline, teaches you how work in a team, teaches you how to properly exercise/be healthy, ad nauseum. I could go on and on and on.

Your fuckup is thinking the only thing you can get out of athletics is being a pro who makes millions.

Look at me, the failure who went to college on an athletic scholarship for football and walked away with a degree in CS & Math. I should be so ashamed...

It probably also doesn't help that the following seem to be true as well:

1. Everyone is expected to make any remotely successful hobby into a business or 'side hustle'. So regardless of the activity or type of art, everyone will pressre you into trying to make it your full time job, as if the only reason to do anything is become rich and famous from it.

2. For many people, I suspect 'become a celebrity' is probably their best bet at making enough money to afford a decent living in this economy. If you're not interested in software engineering, medicine or law, then practical job options for affording a house and decent life are fairly few and far between.

3. The competition in most fields is super high due to said competition being 'everyone on the planet interested in that topic'. So if you want to stand out, you'd better be good at marketing, that's for sure.

And that last point is really the issue all media and creators have to deal with now. When the level of competition is this high, and there are so many people trying to succeed in every field, then supply is going to outrace demand. Hence why conditions are often bad when it comes to publishing and platforms, and why marketing is so ridiculously important now; there are tens or hundreds of thousands of others doing the same thing that are willing to do more poorly paid work to get their name out there.