An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy

Re:An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy by blackflame7000 on Monday April 08, 2019 @10:00PM (#19611047)

The thing is, the people who do it don't know that's all they are doing. It's meaningful to them. False hope is a terrible thing.

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Re:An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy by kmonsen on Monday April 08, 2019 @11:40PM (#19611573)

Again, nothing special about social media/influencers here.

Are not most modern jobs like this?

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Re:An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy by zanny on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @01:30AM (#19612053)

This is what honestly terrifies me more than anything - being in a dire enough financial situation to need to do bullshit work and waste my short time on this Earth for food and shelter. In my experience meaningful jobs are in insanely high demand - they substantially underpay, require substantially more qualifications, and are much more scarce than adding another cog to the cancer of finance, advertising, or business service.

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Re:An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy by JabavuAdams on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:54AM (#19614075)

#authentic <- I don't think that means what they think it means.

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