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by sofuture 5786 days ago
What an appalling and offensive use of one's time.

Make not-so-much money by providing generic content on a subject until X level of popularity is reached, at which point you transition the audience into a not-astounding paycheck and the web property into a commodity valued solely in visits.

And the world moves on, nothing bettered, and very little changed, beyond a tiny shifting of money ownership.

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This is the greatness of Google.

Information Dilution. Instead of a site with dense, focused, relevant content, we can create hundreds of sites with watered-down information.

The more sites we have to sift through, the more money everybody makes.

Google has incentivized the web to dilute content.

Come on.

Everybody starts somewhere.

It's crass, but an extra $20k in the bank as a safety net can make the difference between someone becoming an entrepreneur or stay working full-time.