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What is the percentage of musicians or actors or comedians making over $15K per year?

probably not much better, but as the article points out, influencer/streamer is now the most popular future job in the eyes of many kids.

"People have always invested incredible amounts of their youth into pursuing dead-end career choices. But we deserve to do so for the right reasons and to channel our creativity towards better goals."

These new platforms are unique in that they give a widespread young audience the idea that this is some sort of ordinary career. Nobody ever believed that about comedians.

I'm not too worried. When I was a kid some of my peers invested incredible amounts of their youth into pursuing professional sports careers. None of them succeeded, but I think most of them eventually did fine in other fields.

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