Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)

Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by AngryData on Sunday January 05, 2025 @04:40PM (#42605292)

Define "something that mattered", because over half the stuff posted on hackernews is a complete waste of time and effort if your only real metric is profitability. The vast majority of "hacking" in general is of negative financial value.

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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by _rm on Monday January 06, 2025 @06:12AM (#42609608)

Absolutely savage

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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by llamaimperative on Monday January 06, 2025 @06:55AM (#42609824)

Right but GP’s comment would apply if someone posted a complaint about “why is no one paying me a salary to build an ESP32 thermometer that tickles my feet when it gets below 80 outside?”

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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by tsupiroti on Monday January 06, 2025 @10:27AM (#42611333)

Well, there are often threads lamenting that open source maintainers don't get paid more.

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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by baq on Thursday January 09, 2025 @02:21AM (#42642602)

And then cries of disgust and demands of professional services 24/7 for free because someone found a bug in your hobby project which turned out to be useful for some megacorp or VC funded startup.

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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by DontchaKnowit on Monday January 06, 2025 @09:59AM (#42611088)

Yeah and half the stuff that is of financial value is complete cancer on our society. Social media, advertising systems, etc etc.

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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by tomjen3 on Monday January 06, 2025 @10:58AM (#42611630)

You're entirely correct. However, most people on Hacker News are also making decent money on the side with their main job.

This is not the case for most Olympians, because even for sports that are not attracting large amounts of visitors and viewers and therefore sponsorships, you still basically need to dedicate your life to it.

You don't need to dedicate your life to writing code unless you are working for an early-stage startup or Elon Musk. So you have spare time which you can use to write code.

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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by 52-6F-62 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:37AM (#42622776)

Careful. Trying to detach profitability from utility and necessity, nevermind any higher level ethical or philosophical questions, may get you strung up around here.

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Re:Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken'... by timeon on Thursday January 09, 2025 @06:07AM (#42644080)

> "something that mattered"

Like decreasing quality of life for everybody through ad-tech.

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