YouTube and Patreon Still Aren’t Paying the Rent for Most Creatives

Re:YouTube and Patreon Still Aren’t Paying the Rent for Most... by JKCalhoun on Monday March 22, 2021 @12:53PM (#26543362)

You're right of course, most can leave. But in leaving you are leaving perhaps your best market (depends on what you do, but as an example, let's say you DJ). And also, by extension, you're sort of suggesting everyone making less than 6 figures leave.

I'm putting words in your mouth, I know, and I apologize. But it's the gentrification I am bringing up.

So many construction workers that repair roofs, install drywall, etc. in Silicon Valley live several hours away in Los Banos and have that crazy commute to get to where they can find employment.

Crazy world we live in.

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Re:YouTube and Patreon Still Aren’t Paying the Rent for Most... by Strom on Monday March 22, 2021 @01:06PM (#26543551)

The housing policy of San Francisco definitely makes lives more difficult than it has to be.

My point is more so around realizing the wealth of opportunity. Yes not every DJ will make it in San Francisco, but as you allude to, in most places in the world zero DJs will make it.

I don't claim that life can't be challenging in/around San Francisco. I'm claiming that it's less challenging than in almost anywhere else in the world.

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Re:YouTube and Patreon Still Aren’t Paying the Rent for Most... by JKCalhoun on Monday March 22, 2021 @01:13PM (#26543646)

Agree.

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