There’s something I’m not really getting about what’s going on in the knowledge industry.
I’m still kind of new to this game so maybe I’m completely missing it her, but it looks like there’s been a big shift.
It seems to me that it used to be that people did something, were successful at it, and then started teaching others how to do it. For instance, an entrepreneur would start an online business selling stuff on Amazon, come up with a great method to make tonnes of money, and then create a training out of that to teach others how to do it.
Logic would say that this is the “right” way to go about things, or at least it seems reasonable that you’d first actually do something before you teach others how to do it.
But I’m now seeing left right and centre, people who are trying to make money online by teaching others to make money online. Their sole (or at least, main) source of income is and has always been teaching others how to make money.
It looks like a huge bubble, where people constantly feed off the newbie who just joined and has some money to throw around, and no actual product is being sold. Kind of like a pyramid scheme where your only real goal is to suck more people in, and the product itself is marginal.
It doesn’t seem right, but like every bubble I guess it’s just going to grow bigger and bigger until it pops and only the people offering real value will be left standing.
I may be way off here but that’s what it looks like to me.
Hope it helps
Jon
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