People around the world are paying to watch broadcasts: UFC fights on PPV, online courses for coding, premium sports coaching content etc. so based on that I believe there is a paying audience there. Of course, like everything, that's just a hunch and needs to be validated so your point is valid.
Then there is the 45% platform fee. To be honest, at the moment it's a rough calculation based on costs of running a live streaming platform. Financially to make the platform make any sense, the costs it has to cover are following:
- Payments with Stripe (or similar)
- Live streaming (bandwidth, live encoding, CDN for stream delivery)
- Website hosting
For reference, Twitch.tv, probably the most widely known streaming platform takes a 50% "platform fee" (from subscription) even though they are owned by Amazon and probably have direct access to Amazon hosting infrastructure.
The funny thing about live streaming cost is that the more viewers a stream has, the cheaper it actually is to provide. So when things scale up, price goes down. So in the long run, it would be possible to lower the platform fee.
But in general, I agree with you that the costs have to come down. That could mean things like lower pricing to bigger streamers etc.
I listened to it last night while going to bed. Alex Jones has a lot of insightful info into the New World Order. Its just his infowars platform went full ret-rd on trump's campaign.
The thing is about this Rogan episode was Joe was really pushing him to cite his claims. Nobody ever does that on InfoWars. Don't know why they deleted it.
One rarely sees mice in IT. And neither Maslow had mice in mind when he developed his theory of motivation.
EDIT: Okay, apparently I need to clarify the statement. Humans have so much more possibilities to learn and motivate themselves than a mouse that it really makes no sense to draw conclusions about human behavior from the experiment. You probably remember that already a few brain researchers have dared the balancing act from basic research to show business with a few colored pictures of brain activity, and even got entangled in legal philosophical debates. Sure, you can win an audience and impress your sponsors, but this is not the actual scientific work.
I'm having a hard time as well. Frontend engineer who hates react. i've been unemployed for 6 months. I've applied to QA jobs, Technical PM jobs...i gotta get out of this programming racket at 46. nobody hiring an old fuddy duddy like me. Hell I even see job postings that say "co-founder/CTO, equity only. Must be early 20s"
Hope it gets better for you soon. I'm a systems engineer who dabbles in coding and have been overwhelmed by all the frameworks and whatnot. Wish there were companies looking for just competent engineers to fill probably-mundane-day-to-day-but-mostly-reasonable-otherwise roles.
> Hell I even see job postings that say "co-founder/CTO, equity only. Must be early 20s"
That's code for 'I'm an "ideas" guy, and I need someone to do all the heavy lifting for me. We'll be hanging around work for 18 hours a day. Oh, you'll get 5% ownership'
I hope things turn around for you as well. If you have free time and are interested, you should check out https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/. It's a new way to build reactive interfaces with Ruby on Rails. I'm not affiliated with the project directly, just another person that can't stand React.
You could try working on an online business as an alternative. You already know how to make websites.
If you're better at programming than design, a SaaS might be an option. Otherwise, you could create content that could be monitized with affiliate commissions or ads.
Of course, an online business takes time, but it could be a valid strategy in the next 2-3 years to generate enough income to cover your expenses.
have you tried alternatives? I don't like react as well, angular is even worse for me (personally) to work with, but I really love Vue.js. And the market is growing year after year for Vue developers!
experienced in front-end as well. but not looking for jobs. tired of front-end switched to data. there's plenty of data jobs out there. I'm trying to set up a data consultancy instead of finding a job.
I was in your shoes about 2.5 years ago. I quit my highpaying job and its been fun for awhile, but since the pandemic hit I'm finding zero work. I keep getting passed over after going through all the hoops of tech interviewing. It's exhausting.
One thing you should talk to your doctor about is temporary leave of absence. I took 3 months off although it wasn't nearly enough it was enough to get my shit straight. I quit shortly after because corporate America is a toxic shithole especially for people like us with mental health issues.
Even if you quit and worked part time, the only real option out there is upwork. Pay is crap and you're competing with India.
I would say find a way to stay where you are until this pandemic nonsense is over.
> I would say find a way to stay where you are until this pandemic nonsense is over.
Problem is, we don't know when that's gonna happen. I've seen reports ranging from 6 months to 10 years. Not to be a downer, but its probably not a good idea to rely on the pandemic ending any time soon
Don't forget that just because JFK Jr. didn't show up and become Trump's running mate for 2020...checks notes...aww shit I've got nothing.
...except that giving crazies a voice has real world implications. I wouldn't wish the hate-wave on the Gov. of MI any day of the week. Her Digital Comms Director said she sees more death threats whenever the hate-speech from TROTUS gets put on TV...
