21 sats \ 0 replies \ @sp 20 Jul 2022 \ on: In the future people could be earning a living by posting on SN meta
Good energy, but won't scale in Austrian Economics terms. Capital and free markets need division of labor to become more efficient and generate more value per unit of time.
While earning sats is a nice way of valuing the time spent to write here, the opportunity cost wouldn't offset what highest paid jobs (thus more valuable jobs) would make for the same unit of time.
In my opinion, wannabe Podcasters, blogposters, YouTube stars and similar are there because they can't earn more money by doing what they are supposedly teaching in their material.
On the other hand, I agree that value of shitposting vs writing meaningful things here is strongly in favor for the second (although the first one might be very entertaining sometimes)