It occurs to me that most content creation jobs don't exist anymore, that is, 99% songwriters, essayists, and so forth can't make a living. A few do very well and are promoted as examples for others to follow, but practically speaking it's more of a lottery than a career, and most people involved in content creation are never going to support themselves no matter how much they know or how well they create their art.<p>Platforms are luring millions of people to jump from one get-rich-scheme to another. Each platform has its own technical ways of getting ahead of other creators and locking in content creators and consumers. It feels very much like a serfdom or tenant farming situation, only for entertainment.<p>If being a content creator means mastering some technical platform or jumping through a bunch of social hoops unrelated to your art, if you spend all of your time feeding the machine, are you really an artist? What happens to art in general?