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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • I agree. The algorithm wants you constantly putting out annoying shit to keep their audience hooked. At first you are creative! Monetizing your hobby! Soon you have a hole on your resume, a demanding schedule, a soulless algo, a capricious audience you must grow… Yeah I think I’d take corporate life over being a streamer or whatever.

    Its even eaten traditional creative careers. Writers and artists must be online content creators above all else.



  • When I was 19 I could barely scrape together $22 for a 30 rack of something cheap.

    When I was 14 I had never tried alcohol. Obviously the 21-25 crowd might be expected to spend slightly more on alcohol (maybe?) than the 26-30 crowd. But like even if Gen Z isn’t drinking (which I hear is true) I wouldn’t expect them to spend a lot on booze, for a host of reasons.













  • It turns out that most models make next to nothing. So there are some “whales” paying for porn but they probably have specific fetishes they are getting models to cater to via their money. So I think that’s the answer: men who either have a specific fetish, or their fetish is the attention they think their $50 a month is affording them. It’s like micro dosing a prostitute.



  • Back in the 90s and aughts you could get pizza or Chinese delivered. Usually only at the cost of throwing a few singles for the driver. While it was probably exploitative of the drivers, it did not take 30% of the value of the meal and send it to a rich moron in Silicon Valley. It was not seen as super luxurious to get pizza delivered on a Friday night.

    2019: you could buy a house if you never went to Starbucks!

    2025: no one cares how much money you save working from home, get back to work, get back to the kitchen, deal with the tarrifs!




  • NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldOops
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    It’s like a start up. Show up early and buy in on low stocks, work your ass off, retire at 40. I’d assume it’s something like that. Pick the best place to build your house, claim all the resources.

    Or maybe he just wanted solitude.