[munificent]

Maybe less virtue and more necessary evil. It was a lot easier to not be a sellout in the economic boom of the 90s when you could find that paid the bills. The younger generation now is barely scraping by. They aren't into hustle culture because they love it, they do it because they're broke.

[floren]

But 99.99% of people could stream Twitch 10 hours a day, put out half a dozen Youtube videos a week, chase every TikTok trend, and never make a dime. And at the end of it all? They wasted so much of their time doing things to chase the money, instead of things they liked, and when Twitch decides they're not going to preserve archives from unpopular streams, they don't even have the artifact left over.

[bombcar]

Twitch/TikTok/YouTube is the "move to LA and do foodservice whist waiting to hit it big" of the current generation. You don't actually make any money doing it, but you think someday you will.

[WastingMyTime89]

I don’t think people are broke per say. They have been promoted to and have internalised the idea that if you are not a huge success you are a failure but in absolute term most people seem to be doing fine.