America desperately needs a return to AMERICAN values.
More than half of Gen Zers want to be an influencer — 57% to be exact, according to a 2023 survey of 1,000 Zoomers — but content creators caution it’s not as lax as it seems.
“It’s just constant, Monday through Sunday,” TikTokker Hannah Williams told CNBC. “From the time you wake up to the time you go to bed, the internet’s on, so you’re on as well.”
The 27-year-old runs the popular account Salary Transparent Street, which boasts 1.4 million followers. After quitting her job in 2022 to pursue content creation full-time, Williams now rakes in a sizable $125,000 — but at what cost?
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Yes, Elon is absolutely top-tier as an influencer, but the only reason for that (as you point out) is that he first became an icon AS a builder of amazing things. "Being an influencer" was never never his goal (and certainly not his primary goal, or so I believe) -- getting humans to Mars, replacing fossil-fuel vehicles with EVs, bypassing the costly credit-card companies, etc seem to be the type of goals he's always had.
Today's kids want skip all that -- all the hard work building something that benefits mankind -- and to straight to the Big Money just telling others what kind of clothes to buy or whatever.