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Comment by zwaps | Hacker News Reader

Man, reading this makes me so happy I don't care about social media, and I have other aspirations than trying to be a social media influencer.

What a miserable feeling, chasing numbers, producing and contributing nothing real to humanity.

I bet it is better for happiness and mental health to stay away from all that.

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>What a miserable feeling, chasing numbers, producing and contributing nothing real to humanity.

Yeah. This isn't exclusive to social media influencers, though.

The thing is, the people who do it don't know that's all they are doing. It's meaningful to them. False hope is a terrible thing.

Again, nothing special about social media/influencers here.

Are not most modern jobs like this?

This is what honestly terrifies me more than anything - being in a dire enough financial situation to need to do bullshit work and waste my short time on this Earth for food and shelter. In my experience meaningful jobs are in insanely high demand - they substantially underpay, require substantially more qualifications, and are much more scarce than adding another cog to the cancer of finance, advertising, or business service.

#authentic <- I don't think that means what they think it means.

> What a miserable feeling, chasing numbers, producing and contributing nothing real to humanity.

You just described 80% of financial services...

And 80% of tech startups. If you step back far enough everything is pointless besides having water, a shelter, food and a small community.

For the influencer itself that probably feels great. You do actually have some influence over all those people that follow you.

The question is more why so many people decide to follow those shallow meaningless things...

Yeah, me too. I provide such great value to humanity. Unlike these other people. How pitiable to be them!

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