I mean I like math. But if I had to choose between "how to get 1 mio followers on tiktok" and "how to calculate the differential of log(x)", I'd still consider the first course to have a higher roi... Attention is easy to convert into money in today's economy. Math skills, less so.
FTFY
This is an interesting point. I have no hard-facts based counter-argument to offer, so it might be true but I have my doubts.
I believe that in the attention economy only the most popular of the popular are doing well and only a tiny fraction of them does extremely well.
If you are good at math you can certainly have a good life without being in the top percentile.
Also money is trivially convertible into attention, the other way around is hard work.
"In a good month, I can make €50 or €100,” [Patica] says".
Literally could not be more wrong.
>I'd still consider the first course to have a higher roi...
Even knowing in theory how to get 1M followers, luck plays a massive role and you might as well be playing the lottery. So I'm not sure you've really "done the math" on your position here.
>Attention is easy to convert into money in today's economy. Math skills, less so.
On a website full of SWE's largely making well over 6 figures per year I find this take to be truly laughable...