No, but the point is that tv shows or movies generally don’t pretend like that.

The audience you need to make good money on YouTube, without external deals, is orders of magnitudes larger than on Twitch, though.

It’s true that getting a large audience on Twitch is really hard nowadays, though. Seems like it was a lot easier a couple of years ago, not sure if it’s just because of changed algorithms or because of market saturation.

Anyone who believes that content producers can finance themselves through voluntary donations is usually completely wrong

It works quite well on Twitch - if you have a lot of viewers on Twitch, you usually get enough donations to live off of. YouTube just never managed to find a good way to make creators profit directly from their content.

Most of them are pretending that they aren’t corporate. YouTubers are generally trying to keep up the illusion of authenticity, which on YouTube usually includes pretending that you’re on your own.

I really don’t think most conservatives would become anti-car for even a second, even if they got run over but a giant truck.

The hunter-gatherer cultures we see today actually seem to have a lot of free time. Seems like technological and cultural progress has different mechanics.

I’d say agriculture’s influence is that it’s a big incentive for people to stay in one place and develop relative dense communities, that density is what is actually speeding up progress.

That would have been the first thing I’d check … seems standard practice.