social media = easy monetization

sad that people do not understand most video content is solely to generate revenue, and the posters are not trying to be accurate including regarding their opinions/beliefs/etc. the algorithms are a related problem where posters are designing content solely to be autoplayed advantageously.

there is an element of truth to the good old days of internet when it was 'insiders only' and there was limited monetization

kokonutz, hilarious comment, but its very easy to skip around where you are looking for something in video, whether you can skip in real time or not. i was surprised how well i was able to do with a movie ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantium_(film)) that i had seen before, where i could not see the video while skipping. (on demand at hotels is nice.) anyway, when the video content is monologue for details, can either be impossible or difficult.

frankly, i've moved along an evolution where i have abandoned television, then movies, then watching stuff on internet for information, then listening to stuff on internet for information. if i can't read it, i'm very unlikely to try parsing a video, and can't imagine many situations where i am going to invest much time in watching/listening to 'content'

Raffles, lots of people blow a lot of money even when they do not have much income. the US is unique in just how much people spend, and is insane in terms of the credit that is available. IIRC the last time i looked at government breakdowns by income/spend, the bottom 20% by income had negative income (no idea what that means) and spent around $20,000 per year, average, for that bottom 20%.

some very wealthy people do not spend much money on anything, sometimes that is why they are very wealthy. and obviously wealth and income are different (stock wealth)