The article missed the massive increase in work for creatives that's happened over the last 10 years. Being a influencer. 3.2M people earned more than $100,000 last year being a influencer, the combined earnings are between probably $25-50B in the US.

You really need to factor them in and their earnings in any discussion like this. It's still smaller than consumer spending on this stuff was before but it's the growing part.

Taking the low end of “more than $100K” as being exactly $100K, 3.2M people earning $100K/yr each is $320B/yr and many earn way more than $100K, obviously.

I think either your $50B/yr in the US figure is low (would mean less than 1 in 6 dollars is earned in the US) or, I think more likely, your 3.2M figure is too high.

Where did you source the 3.2M figure?

> many earn way more than $100K, obviously.

Many seems unlikely. Influencer income follows a Pareto distribution so you would expect that most influencers who make more than 100k a year earn close to that.

How did you arrive at the 3.2 million people + 100K figure?

Don't we primarily rely on trickle down economics.

What percentage of the earnings of influencers flows back into the economy as part of production costs instead of small percentage as spending or sitting as wealth in banks.

Very sorry to hear this.

Have you checked out any international Clinical Trials? You can search a lot of these here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ getting the filters right can be tricky though. I’d ask AI for some help looking for the right permutations of names for things.

I’d book a call with FCCT as well. They have a list of private vendors that can potentially help with genetic sequencing and a few other things. They also mentioned a service to me that helps you search for potential clinical trials.

We are constantly looking for new trials, right now for her situation no trials will accept her because she depends on IV nutrition. Beyond that, there are no trials for her sub-type of breast cancer that go beyond 'surveillance'. Her cancer is tricky to find and diagnose, it does not show on a PET scan for example. Finding it early is super important, most dont find it until it is too late.

Sneaky good advice!

Thank you for the thoughtful appreciation. Agreed on 'talk to someone in your age/strength bracket' for surgery.

Really good advice! There are so many benefits of the big centers, the largest one being speed. At MD Anderson I got a question answered within 20 minutes of my visit to a Dr that happened by him calling the pathologist. If that wasn't at a cancer center, it would have take days, or more likely, the question never would have been answered at all.

Yeah, while what I wrote was true the takeaway should have been something like:

- You should pressure test anything an AI says with your doctors, and anything a doctor says with AI.

Yeah I did not mean that as a indication to not trust AI. But rather to use it as a companion and pressure test things doctors say with AI and things AI say with doctors.

This is a good addition, although I have not joined one which is probably why I didn't include it in the list. I should find a group to join.

Glad it could be useful, and wishing you the best of luck with things

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glad it is now fixed. good read.