Thanks, fren. I think it's pretty clear people will shitpost and do all sorts of content just because they want to. Maybe there are even certain people who can benefit from arbitrage working as a professional shitposter living on first worlder tips, but humor is actually an intellectual activity so I imagine such an individual could be a graphic designer or coder (Fiverr, UpWork, and Mechanical Turk over Nostr).

"Low effort" shitposts are a medium, and they are equal able to carry a significant message as something more diplomatically/eloquently written.

I have a couple newsletters and I have thought about the value concept... something never sat right with me about the idea of being paid for such writing because I thought, if I have such great insight into the nature of the world that someone would pay me, why can I not directly monetize it? If I have thoughts on business, should I not simply be building that business. If I do not write are others going to be unable to build their business? Would be fairly arrogant for me to think so. I had takes about health... fitness and health influencers everywhere, very few people building hardware. I didn't talk efficiently, I built hardware that mattered.

Sometimes, the world reaches a state where there is enough info and it just becomes about rolling up one's sleeve and doing the real work. The impulse to be a thinkboi academic is the same impulse that exists within fiat authoritarianism, which is why I have this visceral response to it.