Google and TikTok may seem free, but every click and scroll you make gets packaged into a "user profile" and sold to advertisers. Take Facebook, for example—it makes about $50 per user per year just from their data. In the internet age, if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.
Nice one, from the topic I was thinking it'll be on things beyond monetary value. But back to the context of your write up. Sincerely many persons use social media to pass away time, boredom and sometimes depression. They're not really bothered about how much they pay to use such apps and watch other people entertain them. Many persons have accounts on social media and have never made any post simply because they're spectactors. These engagements makes whiling away time easier and eases their stress even. The owners of contents at least deserve to get paid for helping others ease stress, tension and forget some certain challenges.
He is not disputing the fact that content creators do not deserve their earns for bringing up ideas to the public space, he is just trying to tell us that, nothing is free online, any pictures and videos you click cost you money. Even most courses they posted online as free isn't free in real context, you will watch it on their platforms and it will cost you more with your data. There is big money on social media space than gas and oil, that is why you see content creators living the best of life, they earn huge sum through social media than they do with show. That's why everyone are doing content today.
its more profitable than daily trader and school certificate, Africa youths are doing well through social media imagine Africa without social media money, the youths would have indulge in social vices, but social media has been able to stop many things among the youth.