Re:Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2014)
by djaro on Sunday December 17, 2023 @03:45PM
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The thing about the "unimportant politicians" is a thing in every industry.
As a relatively small YouTuber (50K subs), I have never really spoken to giant YouTubers with millions of subscribers.
But I have spoken to many medium sized YouTubers (100K-1M subs), who are speaking to those giant YouTubers as well as to me.
I don't know MrBeast, but I know a guy who has personally worked with him on videos.
One person can speak to a lot of imporant people throughout their career. You just have to meet them.
Re:Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2014)
by vidarh on Sunday December 17, 2023 @04:03PM
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Yeah, that's what I meant by "nexuses like that" but see now I left unstated "everywhere"/"in every area". Politics is an obvious one, since we see them campaigning and talking to lots of people, but trade shows, professional associations, parties, jobs, incidental effects of jobs (talking to reporters who talk to "everyone") all tend to connect a lot of people to a smaller set of far better connected people.
Those paths connects me to almost every world leader from the 1980's onwards.
What you'll quickly find is that some people have 1:1 conversations with a lot of people, and relatively "unimportant" politicians in particular do so both with "regular people" and all the other parliamentary members including the "important" ones, and there are many nexuses like that where once you find a connection to one it's a massive shortcut for a surprising proportion of the world.