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Comment by cwkoss | Hacker News Reader

"Streaming is their livelihood" is such a weird argument for supporting something.

Maybe I'm an old man, but I really feel like the best thing for the streamers would be for them to get a real job. Streaming is a fragile source of income, and many streamers 'work' 16+ hours a day trying to make enough money to support themselves - with majority of them falling short.

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you're right. we should get rid of artists and actors and musicians and everyone should just learn python.

Learn to code, Artsy edition.

Can I ask what you consider a "real job"? Trust me, it becomes progressively less fun to "play" a game because you have to, not because you want to, to keep up your income.

It just makes me sad to see thousands of young people putting in 12+ hour days making less than minimum wage on the hopes they'll someday 'make it big' and will be able to support themselves playing video games.

Very few streamers make a good living from just playing games - many of the profitable channels grew through deceptive marketing dark patterns, allowing their audience to gamble, or being porn-lite.

Streaming does have some value, but it seems like there is disproportionately large amount of wasted productivity being put towards it in the last decade.

That’s an argument as old as time. Playing in a band, sports, acting, etc. Thousands of years of “get a real job”.

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