Discussed a few days ago<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38832959">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38832959</a>
Just a note to myself.<p>I have been thinking about burn out a lot and why do we get burn out. More often than not the discussions is always we have been working way too hard. And on the surface that seems to be the case. However I dont recall my parents or grand parents getting burn out on anything. And I have my life 10 - 100x better compared to what they suffered, world war, famine etc. They just keep working.<p>Modern Day Chef could keep doing their job in Hot Kitchen for decades. Farmers, Fireman, Policeman, dont have it easy either. Or any Blue Collar jobs.<p>It then occurs to me burn out is happening much more often with people on solving difficult problems and creative thinking. That doesn't mean other jobs dont have problems to solve. But they are on a different spectrum.
Good for him, I'm sure he has enough cash to coast.<p>Was recently listening to Mr.Beast talk about his success and how he is happiest when he is locked in his warehouse. He can't go anywhere without being swarmed. You can tell the guy is at the point where it's becoming overwhelming with 227 million subs and more views on his videos than the Super Bowls gets. He had to turn to marketing his own products to make enough to keep going since sponsors couldn't pay enough to cover his costs and he was sometimes losing 1 million $$ on some of his videos.
He surely has a point stating that creators will compete with AI generated content in the years to come. Virtual stars are already plaguing the platform and companies are seeing those as costing less to produce content (and they don't have to handle PR campaigns whenever the 'physical' stars do something controversial).<p>Well, welcome to the future, I guess.