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Did people ever think being full-time on social media meant you weren’t working in the gig economy? Unless you’re a back end developer at Google or something, being a single independent content creator was never likely to become a serious substitute for a career. Maybe at best it parallels things like being an adjunct professor or other up and down contract work but that’s about it. Even among creators that made it big and got lucky they were always exceptions to the rule. The rest of them wash out over time.
Eh. That stretches the concept quite a bit away from the original point. “Markets” are just massive auction houses that express a preference when people bid with their money. That’s the literal textbook definition of a market in capitalism. Nobody will ever be able to run away from the smaller market based constituencies that have existed for millennia that we call “commerce.”
I'm just saying that broadly speaking, everyone is mostly chasing incentives dictated by a black box force they have limited ability to control.
If you're in the gig economy or working as a streamer, you know where the Algo is and who controls it, at least.
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