03-23-2018, 01:53 AM
I think a few different topics are being discussed; money and ethics. I have learned this lesson well. Creating income from doing what you like turns doing what you like into a job. It also makes you keenly aware of how a bad review can affect this income and how it can affect you. I don't read reviews, comments on blogs, I don't even write some of the blogs in the days or even the years they are published. They are about three years behind. People do that. My FB log, the public one is run by an administrator and they run the website and blog posts twitter feed and other social media things. My private FB page is the only one I post to and I use no other social media personally.
I do this as I, like many, need to be insulated from the chaos of 9000 people sitting in basements thinking Santa Claus should personally write them back. This being said I still try to write any and everyone that takes the time to write personally. I just get the email a few months later and not the ones that don't ask questions or request a response. At the core of this is few people are comfortable becoming a brand. Then you have to be concerned with brand awareness and walk a fine line not to have a negative impact on that brand. I can handle people thinking I am a Jerk but if the brand gets associated with being a jerk then...loss of revenue, loss of reach, boycotts, etc etc.
I doubt many youtubers really thought about this. As previously pointed out, when INTO THE MYSTERY starts going on about the evil corporate reach and influence while pushing a multinational via a revenue stream people have a visceral reaction. This is not meant as a negative toward him. He is a kid, growing and learning and his actions and beliefs may not yet be aligned. Doesn't make him a bad person.
In other cases when the selling of goods or an idea/concept supersedes your own personal moral compass then you are soulless and rich. If you're ok with that then it is all good. The bitch of it is you usually don't know you've sold out, or sold your soul, till it is too late.
I went to a conference selling the idea of using youtube to be product ambassadors. Alternative marketing streams and significant influencers. I was meeting a friend presenting for lunch. During the lunch chat, one of the experts let it slip that for everyone making a thousand dollars a month 100 thousand were making a buck. But they all felt ok charging fifty bucks for the conference.
In security gigs, I am always very careful to know who I am working for. What they really are. Who they really are. If you don't have a significant searchable background and yet say you're a businessman of x corporation I am not likely to work for you. If your main corporation is a numbered company shell and research turns up little then I won't work for you. NOW if your job entails activities I find morally reprehensible or against my personal compass/rules then I won't accept the position. I'd like to believe this NOW/ THEN difference is because I've grown as a human ethically and spiritually. But...? Perhaps I am just not so hungry as I was before... The problem with self-discovery is the view is always a bias one. Same can be said for growing popularity...People that suddenly find fame and money usually go off the rails with disastrous results. Rock Stars, swimming pools, vodka and barbiturates.
I do this as I, like many, need to be insulated from the chaos of 9000 people sitting in basements thinking Santa Claus should personally write them back. This being said I still try to write any and everyone that takes the time to write personally. I just get the email a few months later and not the ones that don't ask questions or request a response. At the core of this is few people are comfortable becoming a brand. Then you have to be concerned with brand awareness and walk a fine line not to have a negative impact on that brand. I can handle people thinking I am a Jerk but if the brand gets associated with being a jerk then...loss of revenue, loss of reach, boycotts, etc etc.
I doubt many youtubers really thought about this. As previously pointed out, when INTO THE MYSTERY starts going on about the evil corporate reach and influence while pushing a multinational via a revenue stream people have a visceral reaction. This is not meant as a negative toward him. He is a kid, growing and learning and his actions and beliefs may not yet be aligned. Doesn't make him a bad person.
In other cases when the selling of goods or an idea/concept supersedes your own personal moral compass then you are soulless and rich. If you're ok with that then it is all good. The bitch of it is you usually don't know you've sold out, or sold your soul, till it is too late.
I went to a conference selling the idea of using youtube to be product ambassadors. Alternative marketing streams and significant influencers. I was meeting a friend presenting for lunch. During the lunch chat, one of the experts let it slip that for everyone making a thousand dollars a month 100 thousand were making a buck. But they all felt ok charging fifty bucks for the conference.
In security gigs, I am always very careful to know who I am working for. What they really are. Who they really are. If you don't have a significant searchable background and yet say you're a businessman of x corporation I am not likely to work for you. If your main corporation is a numbered company shell and research turns up little then I won't work for you. NOW if your job entails activities I find morally reprehensible or against my personal compass/rules then I won't accept the position. I'd like to believe this NOW/ THEN difference is because I've grown as a human ethically and spiritually. But...? Perhaps I am just not so hungry as I was before... The problem with self-discovery is the view is always a bias one. Same can be said for growing popularity...People that suddenly find fame and money usually go off the rails with disastrous results. Rock Stars, swimming pools, vodka and barbiturates.
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