I think this is basically rational as a product prioritization, because converting hyperconsuming outliers to consuming on your platform and/or converting casuals into hyperconsuming outliers is far, far, far more valuable than serving casual users. Product optimizes for that.https://twitter.com/acarboni/status/976545648391553024 …
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Google search was a symbiosis between the borg and SEOs who it incentivized to solve their ML and product problems by filling in the gaps in the Internet and making them maximally discoverable by whatever technology Google had. Youtube similarly uses/employs/etc Youtubers.
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Sometimes this is great. Youtube cuts materially sized checks, daily, to a creative middle class the world over, including funding some extremely quality programming. The consumer surplus for e.g. parents is pretty incredible, if you carefully curate what your kids watch.
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Sometimes, it is less great. Google very obviously pays some people who have great challenges in life to bind together a community of other people who have great challenges in life, and it is not obvious that the binding is net-positive to any member of that community.
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"Give me an example." Examples are plentiful. I'd prefer to leave it ambiguous because I do not like piling onto people who have great challenges in life already, and because being seen as pronouncing a moral judgment is one of the ways to stir the ravening hosts on Twitter.
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