The teacher pyramid scheme.

[Brasspen]

There has been a fad latley. You learn a skill, so you then can teach it. People learn skills such as, art, dancing, music, wood crafts, spinning yarn, martial arts. The only way to make any money from the new learned skill, is to be a teacher of it. This increases the number of people who know the skill, who only end up becoming teachers of it. Eventually everyone already knows, and there is no longer a need for anyone to teach it. Have you ever heard of Amway? It works like that, you learn the skill with the promise of making profit from it, but end up just teaching it.

There is a lot of those schemes in place right now. Wood working, yarn, cloths, knitting, crochet, blankets, music, dancing, artwork, animation, design, web development, video games. Eventually everyone will know everything about all of it, and then it will all CRASH.

It looks like the economy is going to come to a sudden stop to me. Do you how much money is coming from that? Most of it this is what people are doing, learning the skill for the purpose of teaching it. Right now there is already so much competition in so many things, and all everyone is doing is competing to be the teacher.

 

[Tall_Timbers]

Eventually everyone already knows, and there is no longer a need for anyone to teach it.

I don't think there is anything that everyone already knows. I don't think the economy will come crashing down if self-made teachers lack students.

 

[ZNP]

There has been a fad latley. You learn a skill, so you then can teach it. People learn skills such as, art, dancing, music, wood crafts, spinning yarn, martial arts. The only way to make any money from the new learned skill, is to be a teacher of it. This increases the number of people who know the skill, who only end up becoming teachers of it. Eventually everyone already knows, and there is no longer a need for anyone to teach it. Have you ever heard of Amway? It works like that, you learn the skill with the promise of making profit from it, but end up just teaching it.

There is a lot of those schemes in place right now. Wood working, yarn, cloths, knitting, crochet, blankets, music, dancing, artwork, animation, design, web development, video games. Eventually everyone will know everything about all of it, and then it will all CRASH.

It looks like the economy is going to come to a sudden stop to me. Do you how much money is coming from that? Most of it this is what people are doing, learning the skill for the purpose of teaching it. Right now there is already so much competition in so many things, and all everyone is doing is competing to be the teacher.

What you are actually doing is teaching AI.

 

[SomeDisciple]

This is another good economics topic; but I have to disagree that the only way to make money is to be a teacher- it is just the path of least resistance.

Because of the availability of cheap mass-produced goods; small businesses, performers and craftsmen often rely on patronage. You cannot simply set up a blacksmith shop and say "here I am, world- come buy my stuff". You have to either be the best of the best, or have access to special markets.

It's totally fine that people study/train on these things and teach others.

Knowledge=/=skill=/=ability to teach a skill WELL. These are separate talents; and there's nothing wrong with increasing the overall level of knowledge in society about these tings.