I'm fully convinced that we're in an economy where the only entrepreneurship worth while is within the entertainment sectorthink about this logically>if you had enough money you could buy just about everything you need to live comfortably due to how developed the economy is>vast majority of sectors already have been populated with successfully entrenched businesses that serve all the needs of that sector>the only businesses that shut down during covid were mostly small businesseswhile stupidly obvious and seemingly an unimportant point, the fact that covid lockdowns happened and nothing even happened business wise just proves how these entrenched giants are so resilient that even black swan events are nothing to them>those same businesses pay shitty wages on average compared to hours worked on top of the income needs for a comfortable life>the high wage jobs requires degrees which do nothing but drain your money for a little humiliation ritual that lets allows you to apply for a job that requires on the job training anywayscan confirm this personally, i work medical and during my college days we had rotations to multiple different hospitals as part of the program and they all just do on-the-job training due to the fact that all of their tasks are slightly different than each other and the machines you work with between different places is often quite different even within hospitals that are in 15-20 minutes from each other, so regardless of what you learn in school, you are being trained on the machinery and hospital specific ways of doing things as is making your degree fucking pointless the vast majority of the time since they teach you everything necessary to do the job there>even if you make it past college and get a high paying job, you’re wasting your life with the hours there on top of the fact you have to pay back all those student loans assuming you’re not a trust fund babyPart 1/?
>no one unionizes anymore and you can't convince these middle aged women to unionize as they're retarded as fuck so you ain’t getting your fair share of the profits>politicians won't fight for you, obviously, so you’re fucked there>not even mentioning H1b’s and ghost job listingsTL;DR - you’re fuckedHowever, it seems there’s only one place in the economy that seems like you could pull some stunts, entertainment.Functionally, big businesses cannot appeal to everyone, hell, honestly they don’t even appeal to the masses very well sometimes despite how much control they have over the industry.Think about where you get the majority of your entertainment? 4chan of course but other small creators are also far more interesting than main stream slop most of the time.It’s a very important to understand that the umbrella term for entertainment goes far beyond animation and tv shows, expand the definition to documentaries, journalism, fiction/non-fiction books, comics/manga, and video essaysSuffice to say, the definition of entertainment is broad as fuck. Now you might be wondering>”Anon, why in the fuck would you even claim that entertainment would be a remotely easy self-made job to have”Easy, because it’s an infinite frontier Once you have all your needs met what do you do? Go have fun obviouslyBare in mind for what i say next, there’s a fuck ton more intricacies to this but i’ll just give a brief exampleDuring postwar Japan, there were these guys who did something called ‘kamishibai’ and the TLDR is that they went between multiple neighborhoods a day doing street performances and selling candy near the front for super cheap where kids would dish out a tiny bit of money for candy which also guaranteed them a front row seat during the theater/play. Part 2/3
Now here’s the thing, postwar japan was FUCKED, and i really mean it when i say thatFood was rationed (if there was even food to ration at all, black markets popped up like crazy in the early days) and cities were literally blown to shreds, and I'm not talking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, napalm was invented specifically for Japan, not Vietnam. Japan was burnt to the ground and I don't have the numbers but I can promise you that even without nukes Japan was ruined economically and literally. There’s a fuck ton more to it like the fact they actually rented out all the stuff they use for this job to specific group (forgot the name) as well as buying the candy from the same people they were renting from but that’s just extra info beyond the pointNow how does this relate to our times? Well, it proves at the very least that when there’s nothing left people will still always crave entertainment. Even in the worst of times it’s possible to pull in enough cash to survive with entertainment.(you) might be wondering, how in the hell does this apply to (you)? Simple, low barrier to entry, infinite niches within it, that’s why it’s the infinite frontier.I have much more to say on this and it's still a rough draft of the point I'm trying to get across but I want to hear your responses first before I write it out so I don't ignore any obvious points that need to be addressed.Part 3/3
>>62242803True, but also everyone realizes this, so theres huge competition, plus we have slop now, and even before that the idea content was slop. Low effort, high-volume stuff targeting low-iq people if you want to maximize money. Did you know that the most desired job among zoomers is youtuber?Japan didn't have competition or slop, and someone who cheers you up was in high-demand and it was a social good for sure in those timesIt's probably not a silver bullet, but if you can conjure something that zizek calls "surplus enjoyment", then it's an option. It's basically something extra which makes you care about something. His examples are the kinder surprise egg's toy, or the ww2 movie the soviets made, which has a love story intertwined, so that it makes you care about it. But this can be anything, and requires social sense. Or you just make slop of course
>>62242818A good modern example would be the enormous black market for foreign films in Cuba. You can easily sell a flash drive with 100 American movies on it for $500+ USD, you just have to find someone to run it. But your overall point is solid and I agree; humans crave entertaining experiences whether they're enfranchised or impoverished.
>>62242907>huge competition>every zoomer wants to be a youtuberthis was one of the points i wanted to extrapolate on and why i wanted to heavily emphasize the importance of understanding how wide the umbrella of the 'entertainment sector' really isnot only that, when zoomers imagine being a youtuber, most of the time it involves being a gaming youtuber, which yeah, is saturated as fuckI'm of the opinion that ai slop is a lot less scary than you think in terms of saturating the market, how many ai slop videos do you watch and do you actually go back to that same channel that produces that if you have ever even watched a truly slopped video?use yourself as a point of reference, what you consume exists because you are not the first consumer of such a thing. >>62242922>foreign film black markethad a friend who said his dad was in the mafia that would get American stuff like tom and jerry illegally imported for tons of money during the latter years of the soviet union
>>62243105I watch creators that make no money from their work, but instead do it for fun, as was the standard in the beginning of the internet. It's not a big market, and I'm not average in the slightest, and it doesn't help your case.
