In reality, the platform is far more important than individual effort.
In today's competitive society, everyone's absolute abilities are basically similar.
I know a girl who did community management on a public blockchain a few years ago. Her salary was half tokens and half USDT. She never sold her tokens, and last year they increased 20-fold.
Such platforms are truly rare finds. The team has a grand vision and genuinely wants early employees to get rich together, like BNB and Solana in their early days.
Not only the industry, but location is also a huge platform. The other day, a relative asked me if it would be good to go back to his hometown to find a job, since he has a job in Shanghai but no house there, while he owns a house back home.
I told him directly, I'd rather beg in Shanghai than come back. The job market back home is similar to northern Myanmar now, the only difference is you won't be scammed.
Today I also saw a video about a nurse in Shanghai who noticed an increasing number of foreigners coming to the hospital who couldn't understand medical records or Chinese. So she decisively quit her job to become a companion for these foreigners, and now she earns 30,000 yuan a month.
You know, being a nurse involves three shifts, and even with backbreaking work, the monthly salary is at most a few thousand yuan. She essentially switched to a different niche, multiplying her income several times over.
Whether it's benefiting from public blockchain development, staying in Shanghai, or switching to being a companion for foreigners during medical appointments, the essence is leveraging the "platform" and "trend." Choosing the right platform is far more important than how much you struggle within it.