Hey when I google for a tutorial, or a brief on something, know what I don't want? A YouTube video. I don't want a long, slow, ad-filled and unedited video full of ummms and uhhhhs explaining something a handful of screen shots and a few hundred words could do.
@Mainebot They do this because YouTube gives them the potential of monetization, and they delude themselves into thinking their stupid little tutorial is going to make them rich. Same goes for all the people who would be making open source but instead make shitty little closed-source iOS and Android apps. One of many ways Google and Apple are ruining computing.
@freakazoid oh I'm in marketing, I get the WHY, I just don't like it.
@Mainebot I'm more interested in how to fix it. With lotteries at least you can teach people the math, assuming they aren't superstitious, but with YouTube and apps there are enough factors at work that it's nearly impossible to convince people that they're almost certainly wrong about their chances. But at the very least we could get the stats up. N YouTube creators making M moneys for an average of X moneys per creator. The thing YouTube doesn't want people to know. http://fortune.com/2018/02/27/youtube-success-poverty-wages/
There are two factors to consider.
One is the opportunity cost vs the plausible payoff. This is one reason for lotteries working; people will drop a small amount that they won't miss, in the hopes of a life-changing event. It actually makes economic sense, from that perspective.
Another perspective is pointing out that youtube wealth is analogous to being a superstar sportsman. Not many get to do that.
