I agree with you that people don't consider phone a luxury again but not in all parts of the world, some Africans still see iPhones as signs of wealth. Even though the price of things has gone up by crazy percent people are still buying gadgets based on the love they have for it.
Nothing is free in this life, even hive is not free
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If you value your time. Yes then Hive is not free. But also, if you value your time, Twitter and Facebook et. al are about infinitely worse.
I agree. Besides those who are already celebrities - I wonder how much time it takes to monetize on other platforms?
I guess it varies, but most of all it's hit-and-miss. From what I've heard, you are basically either required to grow your audience to few tens of thousands before you can get any reasonable ad-revenue, or have enough luck to create something that goes viral. And even then you may lose your audience (and revenues) as fast as you can gain it.
On Hive the growth is very very slow, especially at start, but it's still growth. I've started to think it's a bit like a having compounding interest. If you don't make any huge mistakes (like plagiarism), you're almost guaranteed to gain a pretty sustainable income stream eventually.
I have understood the same - it isn't as easy as some people have been led to believe, which is why so very few people (in the grand scheme) can actually live off it. I have heard that many of those "influencers" travelling the world in bikinis, are actually living off their parents.
And yep.. it compounds and adds up fast. I know a lot of people who have realized this and have grown their accounts over the last years significantly, whilst still putting the effort into content.
This right here just hit me hard💔
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A lot of people see it this way - I don't understand firstly why people think gadgets are a sign of anything, let alone those who judge them to be significant.