Hi Mukundarajan,

Thanks for the comment.

The middle class is not a pejorative expression. There are plenty of high-quality respectable middle-class careers. Most of which are struggling to fill demand. (nursing, trucking, teaching, plumbers, etc.)

There is a very different economic reality in fields where the marginal costs of production are zero. Power law distributions are inevitable in book publishing, film making, sports, art, music, startups, YouTube, social media, podcasts, etc.

Just as we don’t have 1000 medals for each sport in the Olympics, we can’t have 1000 results on the first page of Google.

Not getting found in search engines, or not having millions of followers doesn’t mean that content is low quality. It only means that something else is determined to better satisfy what consumers want.

I think this power-law dynamic is good for serious creators. Every like, follow, backlink, subscriber, or sale a creator gets improves chances of future success. It’s a cumulative process.

Most creators give up too early. Someone who publishes 1 podcast and quits (26% of podcasts) is not equivalent to someone who has published hundreds of podcasts.