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Why Attention Is Cheap And Participation Is Expensive
The Internet Has A Weird Problem: You Create The Value, Somebody Else Gets Rich 😭💸 Every day, millions of people do free work online. They: post opinions, create memes, start discussions, share market predictions, make videos, build communities. The internet literally runs on user participation. Yet somehow... most of the money ends up somewhere else 👀 Think About Finance Twitter For A Second 😭 A trader spends hours researching markets. Posts charts. Shares ideas. Starts debates. Gets thousands of views. Creates value for the platform. Then what? Maybe a few likes. Maybe a few followers. Maybe nothing. Meanwhile the platform keeps collecting: attention, traffic, advertising revenue, data. Interesting arrangement 💀 The Most Valuable Thing Online Isn't Content It's Participation. People think platforms are built on content. They're not. They're built on people showing up. No users? No discussions. No trends. No communities. ...