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[–]package 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Increased availability of entertainment, often for free, as well as the ease at which entertainment can be created, have effectively raised the profitability noise floor to a level where making it big is the only way for it to be your primary source of income. This is a bit of a false dilemma though because people can far more easily produce entertainment as a decent secondary source of income while working a full time job.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ah, so it's "fuck the little guy". Again.

[–]package 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well no it's more like an ever increasing number of little guys fighting each other for a piece of a finite slice and every once in a while a few ascend to big guys and begin fighting for a different unrelated finite slice, but that slice has a much lower fixed limit on the number of competitors that can fight at once.