(a) survival bias (b) don’t take credit for what you did, you’re not a highly moral hero, it’s just how chemistry in your brain works; it’s perfectly normal to be egoistic, take care of yourself and not quit from the day 1 just because you don’t like what your boss asked you to do.

It’s easy to talk about integrity when you’re not in that position.

I support the sentiment, but today everything is a service that wants your money, this resource is finite. And when it comes to YouTube, it’s not even about whether you like it or not: YouTube is a monopolist.

How’s any of this could replace Twitter? On Twitter, you can follow an MIT economics professor, a scientist from NASA, a military analyst, a sport journalist, etc. You can read every day what they think, what articles they share, ask questions and get answers. These people on Reddit, YouTube, Fediverse, Discrod or Telegram. There’s nothing like that on these platforms at that scale.

Go ahead, name at least one similar place, where you can quickly access all these people.

Twitter is still more than alive and it is the only place, where communities of journalists and experts on a wide range of topics exist. Politics, economics, science, war, sport, you name it. Stop overreacting after every idiotic headline posted here.

The issue is that smartphones have features that are way more interesting than school. Can you send your kid to school with a simple phone that can only make calls and send and receive SMS?

How can they prove that not some abstract public data has been used to train algorithms, but their particular intellectual property?

Yes, a family plan makes it cheaper. You won’t see any ads on your devices, from your TV to your PC, and you can listen to YouTube videos even when your phone is locked. It also includes YouTube Music. It’s a great deal, and I’m not sure why some people don’t see it that way. Sure, you could get a different YouTube client for your phone, install an ad blocker on your PC, block ads on your router to get rid them on your smart TV, and listen to music on Spotify for free. But the value of a good service is that you pay a reasonable amount of money and get all these features without any additional work on your part.

Sounds like Patreon for music.