Ecologia Digital<p><a href="https://mato.social/tags/webIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webIndustry</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mato.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cafe/@baldur" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>baldur</span></a></span> </p><p>"Even the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/paidjobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paidjobs</span></a> when they happen have much lower budgets and are employing fewer people.<br>This <a href="https://mato.social/tags/dysfunction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dysfunction</span></a> means that the “adjacent but still in the industry” jobs that used to pay for the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/passionprojects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>passionprojects</span></a> are fewer and farther between. More and more people have to rely on unrelated day jobs (or spouses) to stay in the industry and the cold hard truth is that most of them will burn out and leave eventually."</p><p><a href="https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/the-web-is-a-creative-industry/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025</span><span class="invisible">/the-web-is-a-creative-industry/</span></a></p>