Is it ethical that people without any specific skills get rich very fast via social media?

[Elena_Stewart]

[lovetohate28]

No. Its not ethical. It is how our world works though. If i were a hot 20 year old chick that could pull 10,000 dollars a day by standing in front of a web cam doing silly dances fully clothed. You bet your ass id be doing that. But i am not and i can not. So im stuck helping businesses run at the heart and foundation of multimillion dollar operations keeping it going through 14 hour days 6 days a week while only getting paid 40 hours a week because overtime doesn't get approved but if i dont get the work done ill be out on my ass and to top it off the 40 hours i do get paid is only at 16.50 an hour. For doing very specialized work over multiple specialties. That i was once informed made so much money! But the thing is. Get a felony. See how much money you make then. They know you can't leave. They know how hard it was for you to find the job you have. So why give you benefits, or a living wage? Simple answer is they dont. And if you ask about it they fucking have the nerve to say that you're not worth it. Mean while the sluts on tik-tok are traveling the world and buying mansions. But hey at least im living in america... Where they call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

[Elena_Stewart]

At least we are living the American dream😵‍💫

[exitseven]

That is the deal with a free enterprise system. It is mostly skill and hard work but sometimes there can be an element of chance involved in success. In the 70s there wa s somebody who got rich selling Pet Rocks.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Elena_Stewart]

👍🏻👍🏻

[WhiteSteve]

I think I’m more ethically opposed to the whole system of working in exchange for currency to purchase goods and services for ourselves. That just feels inherently incorrect, as fully immersed into it as we are. We’re supposed to be cavemen and cavewomen, whether we like it or don’t😂 I don’t buy all this “we’re evolving, mannnnn”, lmao. Having been out of the work force for a few years, I’ve realized…. that system AIN’T IT. That is NOT how we should be spending —no, WASTING— our lives. I’d rather have to chase down my dinner and wear animal pelts to stay warm but still see and enjoy the sunrise and sunset every single day than work 9-5 and just catch the sunrise and sunset in passing while I trudge through a miserable existence living and working for OTHERS’ gain more than my own.

Thats all bigger picture stuff, but as it relates to your question…. the system we’re in is all wrong, as it dictates that we need to be useful to others in some way just to have the right to keep on eating and drinking and drawing breath. Life ain’t supposed to be about economies and GDP, for the greater glory of some country that only exists in the minds of humans and no other animal. But if you’re going to force that system upon us, don’t ever tell me that there’s a right and wrong way to make a dollar, when I shouldn’t be forced to be making dollars in the first place. I say “get it how you live”, and the easier you can get your dollars and the fewer amount of precious moments of life that you have to spend in pursuit of them, the better👍

[Drew-1990]

No it is not ethical. I know that is how it works now but people should not be making that much money just doing some weird stuff online, posting sexy pictures or just playing video games but being funny. There people who work there butts off and barely scrap by. You get those people who think that that isn't worth it and they don't think we are meant to but when people stop doing that work were are you going to get all the stuff you came to enjoy in life without someone there to make it or put it together. Part, not all, of the reason things have gone up in price is because they don't have enough workers. So now it takes longer, they don't make as much or people have to work overtime to get it done in time now so they have raise their prices. So the fact that some funny guy who is good at video games or some cute girl that guys like to watch is making millions while the guys working their butts off to even make that possible struggle is just wrong.

[jshm2]

Yes, we have always sacrificed the idiots who are willing to take risks the rest are not. Ethics has little to do with it. They get rich real fast but also spend it faster, and die younger.

Ethics is just taking the place of religion, as the excuse we use to browbeat others into a culture or status quo.

Were it not for these idiots with one talent, and no regard for their lives, you would see very little innovation in the world.

Sure it's not nice, but life and business are not nice either. You smoke, or get smoked, as they say.

As for social media, sure a lie goes around the world before the truth gets it's boots on. But this is why you keep with the times and learn to work with it and defend yourself as well. Too many people have been ignoring it for years and are now overcome.

[Summeroflove]

I think it’s fine. I think it’s better then onlyfreaks or something like that. Some people work a lot harder on content then most people would think. I’m not making victims out of them because I know everyone wants to be a victim and their life is so hard.

But. If someone’s making money and they enjoy it. All power to them.

[Summeroflove]

All power to them. Unless like I said they’re doing something like onlyfans. That’s gross.

[Mr_twoface]

I personally don't believe it's ethically wrong in any way because it's no easy job gaining followers yet along making content. It takes skills, a heck lot of patience and determination to go become someone people are interested of following. Its easy for us to look at the short videos or content and are surprised as to how people make the living but its not that easy.

[purplepoppy]

If you ask a class of kids what they want to be when they leave school nearly all of the answers are YouTuber or influencer. No one wants a proper job anymore and you can't blame them when their mothers earning more than their teacher by eating bananas on her onlyfans site.

[Massageman]

"Ethics" isn't the right category for this premise, in my opinion.

If someone is getting rich via SM, then they DO have a skill set, "sucking people into their little world", and this (like it or not) IS a sellable commodity these days.

Maybe the rest of us should just ignore them. Then, this becomes a study in "time management" for the users of SM.

[Squatting_Slav]

in my opinion those who get rich from social media do have the skills to do so in the first place. But it is to the legions of followers who make those people famous who deem them skillful haha. I guess in a sense what we might perceive as a skill is subjective to eyes of the beholder. One might think football isn't a skill but eating 20 bicmacs a day is 😂

[catsmemoir]

Probably a sign of a dying society. Any civilization that pays social media influencers more than surgeons, or even cops/firefighters/EMTs deserves to be conquered, pillaged and burned by someone like Putin. I for one wouldn't life a finger to defend it

[MikeTheBartender]

I would argue social media is the skill, there's probably one billion profiles on social media and not all make money off it. Many many many certainly try though!

[IslaTheWitch]

I don't find anything unethical in finding a niche, and people want to pay for whatever one can offer them.

[ProbablyClueless]

I mean... as long as they aren't doing anything inappropriate, I don't see why it wouldn't be ethical.

[NathanDavis]

my bankers are not that skilled either, but hey...

[NaultD]

Ethical capitalism? You got a supply people have a demand. That's the whole game.

[slatyb]

They have a skill -- entertaining other people on social media.

[SweetDripp]

Apparently they have the skill of marketing themselves!

[Hangry06]

It IS a skill to get rich very fast via social media

[Rangers]

No, they should have all of their assets seized and be used to pay working citizens back their taxes

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

Who stops you from doing the same?

[Elena_Stewart]

My ethics😁

[wiltingrosepetal]

It's not unethical, it's just a little depressing

[AngryCarl]

Ethics have nothing to do with it.

[californianjoe]

I'm smart but poor