[HN Gopher] Your Incentives Are Not the Same as Media Companies'
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       Your Incentives Are Not the Same as Media Companies'
        
       Author : paulpauper
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2023-06-16 22:26 UTC (35 minutes ago)
        
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       | paulpauper wrote:
       | _If you alienate 99 people and get one person to say "Wow! You
       | have exactly the same flavor of hatred for people who plant
       | petunias that I do, but you express it so much more cruelly, I
       | bet you're literally making them cry, it really made my day!" you
       | will not become the 71st richest man in the world. You will just
       | lose 99% of the potential people who could listen to you or care
       | about you or be your friends_
       | 
       | but why does this work for media companies and not individuals.
       | consider the huge success of someone like Sabine Hoffstader. what
       | percentage of general population cares about hard physics? maybe
       | half of 1 percent, but if you get all of them it adds up...
        
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