I had to deal with some guy at work trying to do some tiktok video and including me in it so I could complement his side gig or some shit (and likely only including me because women get views). And if I complain too much about being included in their grift everyone will shit on me for being a karen or for not helping him with it. Jesus fucking christ, I hate people that try to constantly plaster their face and name on everything to make money. Fuck youtubers, fuck tiktok, fuck ads, stop stealing peoples work for a quick buck ‘by doing commentary’, leave me the fuck alone
Yeah kinda. But people value different things. I value time so work less hours at work and take an easy stress free job. I could earn double if not more working elsewhere but at what cost.
If I’m housed, watered, and fed then the next thing I want is time. I love my job and still hate going to work and I work from home. I hate the idea of giving so much of myself away for Monopoly money.
Imagine if we get a robust universal unconditional social dividend atop a properly adequate “basic income”, accompanied by high quality free-to-use social services (including transport)… then we could:
Do what we’re good at, what we love doing, and what needs done, fulfilling our passion and mission, not just our profession and vocation.
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Yeah, though, don’t really need the smaller portions pointed out to get the main gist. Most versions of the Ikigai venn diagram don’t even include those.
So the people that work really hard fund those that don’t feel like working. Seems like a great deal. For some people
We have that problem NOW.
Billionaires don’t work at all, they just siphon money away from us all, our labor, our hard work, our time, they get 99% of all that profit, we get crumbs.
It’s a great deal, for them, the rest of us get just enough to not die or start rioting.
Try again.
Btw, Thinking that billionaires don’t even work is just silly.
No it isn’t, that’s the economic reality. Do you think billionaires make that much because of some outrageously high salary or hourly wage? Because that ain’t it. They make their money by having money.
It works fine for me and most people. You just need to be dedicated and have a skill that’s valuable. If you don’t have one then you need to get one.
It is a great deal. For everybody.
Or would you prefer a billionaire’s monopoly collapsing the economy and everybody starved and enslaved in bullshit jobs?
Sorry if that’s an accidental false dichotomy. What’s a middle-ground alternative you propose?
UBI tests have shown people are enabled to do more, and do not just sit around because they “don’t feel like working”. Most work is already unpaid (and unrecognised as work). This simply remedies that.
I prefer taxing the Uber wealthy like we did before Reagan. If you’re in a bullshit job that’s your fault. Especially in this day of free knowledge and education. Learn a skill.
The problem isn’t TikTok or YouTube—it’s some guy at work who felt entitled to use you for his side hustle. If someone treats you like a prop instead of a person, you don’t owe them compliance, and you don’t owe bystanders an explanation either.
Yep. Nothing forces anyone to do anything, people do this crap willingly, and then blame everyone else for their poor behaviors.
It’s called be a shitty human being.
Well TikTok is also extra reprehensible since it’s been taken over by CIA/Oracle.
Nope. I want and love to make money. I look for every opportunity to. It not only makes my line better, but it allows me to give to charity, provide for my kids classrooms, give to others, and so on. You can’t help others if you can’t help yourself.
Well in this case it probably isn’t money he is after, but attention and fame. That said, just tell him you had a past “incident” you don’t like to talk about, but that your image shouldn’t be on anything that might give away your current location. Lol.
just tell him you had a past “incident” you don’t like to talk about, but that your image shouldn’t be on anything that might give away your current location.
I appreciate that you are trying to help here, but I’d advise against that. This is a person who shows little respect for others’ privacy or feelings. Telling them a lie like this could easily result in them trying to find out what this “past incident” was, telling other people OP has some past trauma and making them even more uncomfortable.
It should be way more simple: no means no, and you’re not entitled to have other people play a part in your videos.
Yes. And, I hate that everyone feels like they have to do this shit to pay for their lives. We cant just enjoy things anymore, it’s all monetized.
Nobody has to do it. They choose to do it, and then justify it will some bullshit excuse like they have no other option. They do have other options, they just choose not to exercise them. Often because they feel like social media, or MLM, or other shitty choices will be a shortcut to fame and riches.
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List of ways in which this would be illegal under a sensible government:
- affiliation with a banned for-profit privacy violation scheme known as “TikTok”
- attempting to compromise someone’s privacy by persuasion to permit the placement of their likeness on the aforementioned “TikTok” in spite of the human right to privacy
- participating in discriminatory sexism by attempting to encourage toxic forms of distinguishing between “women” and “men”
- prioritizing personal financial gain over human rights
- solicitory harassment
- attempting to recieve ad revenue from illegal forms of advertisement
As a matter of fact, I take it very personaly. Making it near useless is one of my long-term goals, even if only localy.
Yeah I did. It makes me want to scream. Everyone just shut the fuck up.
I do a lot of open source contribution on my spare time because I think it’s fun and I like to contribute to software that is open and free for anyone to use. I have several friends and co-workers that think I’m stupid for not only work on projects that pays me.
I’m happy as long as I get to write code for fun and also contribute to the world. That is it’s own reward.
I do open source contribution so nobody else has to solve the same problem twice. And I don’t have to maintain my own fork.
Everything is so hollowed out that the only thing that’s really left is making money. I remember a time when people used to cringe in front of a camera doing those viral dances and stuff. But nowadays everyone is sold on the idea that as long as you keep creating content on social media you will be rewarded for your efforts. Now whether it’s by actual people interested in the things you create or old men trying to sneak a peek into a girl is another thing…
there are a lot of youtubers and tiktokers that dont do it for the money
i learned how to code from a pretty young age
Every time i particupated in a game jam or made a game or any other coding related project, i was asked by my parents if i made money from it
I was like 12 years old; i hated thatThis really just goes to show how strapped everyone is. If all you ever think about is needing to make more money, you’re struggling.
If my ‘struggling’ you mean ‘i want to be wealthy but i constantly overspend’.
nobody doing social media posts is in poverty.
Depends on who you follow, specially on YouTube. There are lots of small channels that just make videos about how they feel and how to improve yourself, for example.
I subscribe to all of those small channels with an interest that i share. Then youtube feels like when it started. Just ordinary people talking and not acting in front of camera.
I mostly watch YouTube for the guitar videos. The best guitar teachers on the planet are on YT with tons of free guitar lessons and other interesting content (gear reviews, repair videos, guitar building, etc.). A lot of them are selling some special course, but they’re all offering plenty of free content, and I’ve never felt the need to pay for anything.
