Can You Make Money Creating Content?

From a LessWrong perspective, it's hard to make money right now.

Paid content—especially non-essential content (pseudo-essential content)—is unlikely to become a blockbuster. It can't be packaged and sold to a mass audience the way traditional publishing does.

Selling merchandise involves high costs for supply chain management and product oversight. Even when sales look decent, actual profits may not be great.

The real money is in advertising. So if you're building content, you still have to rely on the ad model—particularly brand advertising.

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