Our society rewards fucked up behavior if you are a celebrity or if you are rich.
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Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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1984@lemmy.today 2 months ago
buttfarts@lemy.lol 2 months ago
Blame the algorithms, but yes otherwise you are correct. Being an intransigent shithead is a pathway to success in this world. The bully is rewarded endlessly while the victim is stigmatized.
All of history’s greatest figures in our mind are people with the biggest body counts. Napoleon killed a whole generation of young men in Europe and was basically his era’s Hitler. Today he has Fanboys who rush to defend him online.
That’s why Putin invades Ukraine and dgaf about bodies because he’s playing to an audience 300 years in the future who also dgaf about the victims anymore than we care about Napoleonic war casualties.
We are a species of savage assholes and we survive today as the beneficiary’s of that legacy.
1984@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Yes, it’s interesting when you realize this. Kind of turns a switch in your brain and you suddenly think about things very differently.
suction@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s called “Americanisation”.
imgcat@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Loud minorities are loud.
happybadger@hexbear.net 2 months ago
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Welcome to the academic precariat.
prosthetiknow@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Read this paper the other day which is basically this meme and your comment combined.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ha. Wait until you are the unpaid reviewer struggling to pay mortgage on first house and still paying off student debt. You’ll start to understand why reviewers can be such dicks.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was expecting Toby McGwire. I’m pleased with the switcheroo.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I suspect that if you add up all the money Youtubers make, and you divide it by all of the man hours people spent trying to make a living off of Youtube, “poverty stricken PhD candidate” would start to seem like a good financial decision.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yeah becoming popular enough on YouTube to be able to have it be your full time job is like winning the lottery in terms of how many people have tried vs how many have succeeded.
emenl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It seems to rise to the top of YouTube, you have to be a crazed sociopath or just plain idiotic to engage enough people to be able to afford a house. I think college is overrated but still think those that try are better off. Youtubers are not in anyway contributing to the betterment of our world. It’s sad how crap content is the driving force for getting monetized.
sheogorath@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep, a close friend of mine managed to be an established content creator with brand deals. I won’t go into specifics as it’s quite easy to extrapolate who the person are, but many people that are our mutual friends already started to think that “If [redacted] can manage to be a content creator then I must too” and started to clout chase.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s just like any other fame/luck based career. The top 2% make 98% of the money.
Wilzax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s why, with any potentially lucrative hobby where success is based mostly on luck, you should only do it for fun while you save enough money to try it out full time to see how you like it. But you shouldn’t quit your day job until you have some GOOD evidence that you’re not going to be dirt poor if you pivot to doing your hobby full-timd
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was possible to make money with a blog. I had a niche one for years, I didn’t make much, but nonetheless I got money from it.
Then Google changed how Adsense worked and paid.
It then became impossible to make money unless, you guessed it, you were the top x% of bloggers.