Why Creator Economy Exists and Why It Is Booming

People are quitting their 6-figure jobs and they are entering an online economy that promises to help them make a living by doing things that they want to do — the Creator Economy.

And it is booming.

People are creating content that entertains, content that teaches, content that makes you think, content that makes you move. Some do it as a side activity, but an increasing amount of people are trying to do make it into their full-time job, amplified by the Great Resignation.

Educated, highly talented people are quitting their well-paying, prestigious jobs and entering an online world that is filled with uncertainty and exciting promises at the same time. So much that it started to resemble a cultural shift, a major social change.

Ten years ago, it would be hard to imagine that something like this could ever happen.

Twenty years ago, people would tell you that you were crazy if you ever proposed such a possibility.

They would also tell you that your head was in the clouds. And that you were an irresponsible daydreamer.

The ‘responsible’ way was to get a good education, get a good, prestigious job, marry, have kids, and work your life away diligently until you retire in 40 years.

Few people could brave the social conflict which quitting their cushy day job and trying to make a living online. Leave aside the financial risks of doing so.

But legions of people are doing precisely that today, and it doesn’t seem to be stopping anytime soon.

Why is this happening?

Aren’t we living in the best time of humanity, made comfortable with innumerable commodities as well as ever-advancing technology?

Aren’t we in the age that is the most prosperous age throughout entire human history?

Don’t we have the best economic system and the best business practices ever developed by mankind?

If everything is so great, why people are quitting their secure jobs and jumping into an online world of uncertainty?

This is happening because people are burned out by the exploitation of the current economic system, its sociopathic business practices, and the resulting socio-economic order.

Wages remain stagnant while productivity rises.

People are expected to work ever harder and be loyal to their employers while employers ditch them in the slightest chance of ‘improving their bottom line’.

Employees are seen as replaceable cogs that can be discarded at any time while sentiments of the shareholders are paramount.

Absentee shareholders and investors add to their pointless billions whereas the employees who work to generate that wealth, get cents.

Hollow ‘company cultures’ are concocted and pushed onto employees, whereas the work environment is stripped of any humane thought and feeling.

People are laboring their lives away for the sake of absentee owners of corporations, pushed to burnout by increasingly dehumanized corporate machinery that seeks to maximize profit at all costs.

Empty sensitive rhetoric fills the press releases whereas executives seek ways to make people work for less pay.

It was inevitable that things would come to a head.

You can exploit the entire society only so far before people start to bail out of the scammy social contract.

Much better to quit your 6-figure job and start making money by doing what you like, on your own schedule, by setting your own terms and conditions than laboring away as a corporate drone for the benefit of absentee shareholders.

Much better to work for yourself rather than get ‘optimized’ by corporate ‘innovations’ that seek to suck more productivity from you at the detriment of your happiness and health.

The amount of energy and happiness you gain is incomparable to the financial loss.

Especially after the pandemic showed everyone how transient human life was, how easily it could end, how unimportant things like careers, respectability, societal opinion were, and how society could change its opinion so fast like it always did.

When millions of people are dying en masse, the entire social construct gets disrupted by a totally unexpected event, how the measures that are taken to remedy the situation proves that totally different ways of working and living are possible, suddenly the social paradigm that was sold as an unchanging dogma doesn’t look so inviolable anymore.

People saw that they could just work out of their homes.

People saw that they could be even more productive while working at home.

Even further, people discovered that it was possible to make a living online.

But the most important of all, people found out that they could do what they wanted to do, and still make a living.

Would they go back to the exploitative corporate hellscape where the final drops of productivity that could be extracted from them will be extracted along with the last remaining bits of their soul?

No, they wouldn’t. And they won’t.

That’s why the Creator Economy is booming and there is no end on the horizon…

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