A very important life rule is to never, ever care about someone more than they care about you.

So much for everyone less fortunate than you. The vast majority of the people in the world are much less fortunate than the average HN reader. And yes, they are probably not worrying about us, but a little consideration for them in how we vote or how we donate could make a big difference.

This rule creates a negative feedback loop to a world where every single person cares about no one else.

As opposed to some Woodstock hippy utopia where everyone cares so much for everyone else that love conquers all?

How is that the only alternative?

I don't if they're saying other people shouldn't have a different take on life. I prefer to actually have a certain level of respect and care for my fellow humans. It's is dwarfed by my concern for myself and my family, but yeah I'm gonna bend down and give someone a hand if they drop something or need a push off the road or battery jump.

I don’t see creators as "someone" because creators are mostly little business and the person you see on the video is just acting and reading a script.

So I can treat them as things. And I do care for the things I enjoy in life when I want them to stay or improve. Not because of the person behind (because, you are right, they don’t know me and I don’t know them) but because I care about what their work bring to my life.

The fact that someone is being able to make a decent revenue for this work is a nice externality that I like. But having great knowledge / content freely accessible is what I care.

However I’m not paying for YouTube Premium because I care about the content and not the platform. It wouldn’t make a difference for me if I had to use another platform.

Platforms should be subcontractors of the content producers. I don’t want to pay for the hosting platform but give my money to the content I love. And that a part of that money is used to provide hosting shouldn’t be my business.

That's like, the opposite of the golden rule. Do unto others only if they'd do unto you.

Not exactly.

I would like others to reciprocate by not caring about me more than I care about them.

Why would you?