>Ms Michelle has 550 fans and makes $8,000 a month, charging a $30 subscription fee to users. She also relies on tips ranging from $5-$200 for pay-per-view photos, videos and text messages.
>She says her OnlyFans work is the only way she can support her family due to the pandemic, and fears many other content creators will struggle to make ends meet going forward.
Yes. Generally there is no "free" tier.
Really? There's always working at Walmart, Target or even collecting an income from Patreon?
And also you can do both.
But creators can still make money on this platform no? I see most creators there, what are these 'issues'?
For everyone else on the platform, probably yes? If I was them I would consider options.
> Society used to judge things like irresponsible pregnancies, and everybody were way better off because of that.
Revisionist delusional fantasy. In Western society people had far more children a couple of generations ago, regardless of wealth. The Church pressured this as well.
People laud single moms not because there's a virtue in being single while raising kids, but because it's a hardship, particularly to do well.
We should not be denying people who are exploited by our economy this biological right. What we should be doing is lifting up the worker to a baseline of dignified living.
I sincerely hope you will take a few minutes and reflect on your statement that poor people should not have kids, and that society should somehow punish them for doing so.
Do you need reproduction to survive? Well, lots of people are alive who haven't reproduced, and many are of old age. So, this doesn't quite check out.
It isn't an easy life. You get a tiny apartment and share bedrooms. Parents (more likely parent though) often sleep in the living room. Not all apartments will allow this but enough will that you can find a place. There is enough money for shelter and food, and the cheap cable TV, so that is your entertainment.
It isn't a bad life, but you are limited away from a lot of the things most of us enjoy.
I know people who have done it. I went to college and want my kids to do the same so they don't have to live that life. Unfortunately most in that life don't realize that it wouldn't be hard to get their kids out of it. They are eligible for a lot of programs that the rest of us can't get to take care of the costs, but if you don't realize that the effort of applying yourself is worth it they won't get you out and the cycle repeats.
There are tons of valid reasons why someone can't "just get a job at Walmart".
She isn't doing this because it's the only way she can make a living. She's doing it because it's the easiest way to make money.
At least Walmart got hazard pay. We were specifically exempted from it.
I too lack sympathy that she's only making $8,000/mo on OnlyFans. Reality is that she may have to adjust her lifestyle like hundreds of thousands if not millions of other people have.