This is a long reply. I agree with you, I’m explaining my perspective of why I think you see what you are seeing, feedback is welcome.
Thank you OP for this meme. I don’t get why the other commenters are defending OF creators as sex work when they are clearly financially benefiting from isolation to create parasocial relationships for sex as opposed to having those same people have the time for actual relationships.
Most OF creators make next to nothing but some make boatloads. Same with drug dealers. The same cannot be said of regular, average job holding employees.
This is because when you have a job, you sell time, while with OF and drugs you sell products. And since multiple people can buy the same product at the same time, some (because of probability) get rich. But it is impossible for you to sell the same hour more then once. Try selling your same 9-5 time to 2, 3 or more employers at the same time, you cannot. Instead you have to get a second job and sell more hours of your day. Since you sell more hours of your day, you buy more products (take-out for food, OF for sex, and drugs for relaxation). If many do this at the same time, then each day these sellers have multiple people buying their products at the same time as opposed to one after the other.
Selling products is parallel while selling hours is serial. Number of products they can sell is capped by the number of people who buy, i.e. for the internet (OF) it’s in the billions and they control the profit per membership $/product, but the number of hours you can sell is capped at only 24 hours per day, that’s it, you cannot sell more so you only control the rate $/hr to get rich. They have 2 variables to play with while you only have 1.
Most OF creators get next to nothing because they only sell few products at low prices while some get a lot because they sell a lot at low prices. But I bet there are some OF creators that sell few products at high prices. Many products (100,000 products) * low price (10 $/products) = few products (10 products) * high price (100,000 $/product) = be able to buy 5 cars ($1,000,000). See, 2 variables, and neither is time (because time is capped at 24) is important to get rich because you can play with both to get where you want.
This also shows why most OF creators struggle. Few products (10 products) * low profits (10 $/product) = “just getting by” ($100). Most OF creators price their product low because their are a lot of people who pay low prices so they charge the same price because they see that price the most often. What they could do is charge the same number, fewer people, but higher prices to get the same result.
Also be aware there is no minimum price point so if you sell at 0.01$/product you need a lot more product to be able to make a living, let alone rich. Look at stripe. They sell at 0.30$/product but their product is online transactions, and there are a lot if transactions. So 0.30 $/transaction * 10,000,000,000 transactions = $3,000,000,000.
Furthermore, while some OF creators get 5 cars the owners of the OF platform have 5 yachts because all OF creators (all the big and all the small creators) go through the OF platform so all OF transactions is the number of products that the OF platform company sells (product) * ($/products) and their $/product is their cut of each OF membership = $$$.
This shows the same goes beyond just OF creators and drug dealers but all products, including food, cloths, rental units, online content, games, toys, cars, appliances, etc.
When doing the above examples keep the correct units. Unit algebra is important here: $/product * product = $ same as $/hr * hr = $ but remember the max number for hr is 24 while #products is uncapped. $/hr and $/product is determined by your ability to negotiate.
So, given hr is capped at 24 and #product is uncapped, would you rather have $7.25/hr or $7.25/product ? ($7.25 is fed. min. wage in US, replace your min wage in this example to drive the point home).
“I don’t get why the other commenters are defending OF creators as sex work when they are clearly financially benefiting from isolation to create parasocial relationships for sex as opposed to having those same people have the time for actual relationships.”
“Financially benefiting from isolation” like video games? Or alcohol companies? Maybe gambling? Or like almost any company that uses advertising?? FOMO is a thing outside OF.
It’s on individual if you are spending too much time on OF to have actual relationships that is the fault of the individual. OF creaters aren’t mind controlling ppl. No offense but this smells almost incelish.
This is a long reply. I agree with you, I’m explaining my perspective of why I think you see what you are seeing, feedback is welcome.
Thank you OP for this meme. I don’t get why the other commenters are defending OF creators as sex work when they are clearly financially benefiting from isolation to create parasocial relationships for sex as opposed to having those same people have the time for actual relationships.
Most OF creators make next to nothing but some make boatloads. Same with drug dealers. The same cannot be said of regular, average job holding employees.
This is because when you have a job, you sell time, while with OF and drugs you sell products. And since multiple people can buy the same product at the same time, some (because of probability) get rich. But it is impossible for you to sell the same hour more then once. Try selling your same 9-5 time to 2, 3 or more employers at the same time, you cannot. Instead you have to get a second job and sell more hours of your day. Since you sell more hours of your day, you buy more products (take-out for food, OF for sex, and drugs for relaxation). If many do this at the same time, then each day these sellers have multiple people buying their products at the same time as opposed to one after the other.
Selling products is parallel while selling hours is serial. Number of products they can sell is capped by the number of people who buy, i.e. for the internet (OF) it’s in the billions and they control the profit per membership $/product, but the number of hours you can sell is capped at only 24 hours per day, that’s it, you cannot sell more so you only control the rate $/hr to get rich. They have 2 variables to play with while you only have 1.
Most OF creators get next to nothing because they only sell few products at low prices while some get a lot because they sell a lot at low prices. But I bet there are some OF creators that sell few products at high prices. Many products (100,000 products) * low price (10 $/products) = few products (10 products) * high price (100,000 $/product) = be able to buy 5 cars ($1,000,000). See, 2 variables, and neither is time (because time is capped at 24) is important to get rich because you can play with both to get where you want.
This also shows why most OF creators struggle. Few products (10 products) * low profits (10 $/product) = “just getting by” ($100). Most OF creators price their product low because their are a lot of people who pay low prices so they charge the same price because they see that price the most often. What they could do is charge the same number, fewer people, but higher prices to get the same result.
Also be aware there is no minimum price point so if you sell at 0.01$/product you need a lot more product to be able to make a living, let alone rich. Look at stripe. They sell at 0.30$/product but their product is online transactions, and there are a lot if transactions. So 0.30 $/transaction * 10,000,000,000 transactions = $3,000,000,000.
Furthermore, while some OF creators get 5 cars the owners of the OF platform have 5 yachts because all OF creators (all the big and all the small creators) go through the OF platform so all OF transactions is the number of products that the OF platform company sells (product) * ($/products) and their $/product is their cut of each OF membership = $$$.
This shows the same goes beyond just OF creators and drug dealers but all products, including food, cloths, rental units, online content, games, toys, cars, appliances, etc.
When doing the above examples keep the correct units. Unit algebra is important here: $/product * product = $ same as $/hr * hr = $ but remember the max number for hr is 24 while #products is uncapped. $/hr and $/product is determined by your ability to negotiate.
So, given hr is capped at 24 and #product is uncapped, would you rather have $7.25/hr or $7.25/product ? ($7.25 is fed. min. wage in US, replace your min wage in this example to drive the point home).
“I don’t get why the other commenters are defending OF creators as sex work when they are clearly financially benefiting from isolation to create parasocial relationships for sex as opposed to having those same people have the time for actual relationships.”
“Financially benefiting from isolation” like video games? Or alcohol companies? Maybe gambling? Or like almost any company that uses advertising?? FOMO is a thing outside OF.
It’s on individual if you are spending too much time on OF to have actual relationships that is the fault of the individual. OF creaters aren’t mind controlling ppl. No offense but this smells almost incelish.