Mencius Moldbugman

6/ It’s true that salaries of these women are low, but don’t feel too bad for them. Low media salaries, high competition and endless internships mean that only the most privileged of grads can afford to be funded by Mom & Dad for 8 years to pay their rents in the big media cities

7/ As well as a bankroll from Bank of Mom & Dad, the media has high barriers to entry. Only the most well connected get those initial internships which then lead to full time employment in the industry.

8/ Working class and/or conservatives need not even apply for these entry level media jobs. The only other avenue for those not well connected is to out-woke your competitors leading to an arms race in outrage, hysteria and click generating garbage.

9/ All of this has led to the sad sorry state of our current media scene. But, as our lovely HuffPo ladies have just learnt, endless diversity means that there are always costs to be cut and savings to be made. Woke Capital is still Capital at the end of the day.

10/ Right now, Facebook, Twitter & all other social media employ armies of low paid workers in India/Philippines to generate content & moderate comments. Outrage can be outsourced. So can censorship. Why pay even a freelancer when someone in Manila can do it for almost free?

11/ So the surge in media insanity seen recently is not just a product of Trump Derangement Syndrome - it’s an intra-journalist competition & arms race for the ever decreasing number of opportunities available. Remember: journos are unskilled, they can’t just get jobs elsewhere.

12/ Every journo has to fight their fellow journo in creating hysteria and outrage. Trump was the best thing that ever happened to them.

13/ But the reckoning is already here. What isn’t outsourced to Manila can now be replaced by algorithms that generate clicks & reader share. That doesn’t mean better/fairer journalism - in fact it will get worse - but at least we get to see HuffPo catladies crying on Twitter