Tag Archives: capitalism

Doing worthwhile things

You can’t build a blog in one evening and expect money to roll in. If it was that simple – everybody would be a blogger.

Doing worthwhile things takes a lot of years, and most people give up along the way because the sheer amount of work might not necessarily reward you back. That’s the downside of online work.

If my goal was to make money, I would have been making more flipping burgers at McDonald’s. For me it wasn’t about the huge money, for me it was about doing something for myself rather than for an employer.

Anyone can build a blog if he is willing to work, and a huge blog will attract some eyeballs, the question is if you can monetize all that hard boring work, not a fact that you can’t make a blog.

Everybody working these days wants some monetary reward because working for free in capitalism doesn’t make any sense since everything costs money. Sure there is free stuff, but you can’t complain about something you get for free.

Worthwhile things take years to build, it’s not something you can build in one evening.

Better than good

Capitalism is highly competitive environment and in many businesses it’s not enough to be good.

The best pianist in Lithuania went to Moscow and there was 200 like him.

The internet is highly competitive, it’s not that hard to get views, likes, comments, but all the hardness becomes when you want to pay bills by creating.

And you might be good, but not good enough.

You could also create content just to create, but that would just be a waste of effort.

Today creating a few blog posts won’t earn you anything. And creating content for profit, or even fun, is hard tiresome work.

And sometimes I think that I am doing free unpaid labor rather than making a business or some serious money. But since I don’t have anything else to do – I can do it.

Most people would have given up by now, but I keep going. You know – working for free doesn’t make any sense in capitalism.

So, if you are working alone as I am – you really can’t compete with full teams, companies that have advertising budgets even when you’re good.